Quotes About Humanity

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.