Quotes About Humanity

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

Man is a moral being.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.