Quotes About Humanity

Si je pouvais, nature, être seulement un homme devant toi ; alors, cela vaudrait bien la peine d'être homme !

Sous quelque habit que ce soit, je n'en sentirai pas moins les misères de l'existence humaine. Je suis trop vieux pour jouer encore, trop jeune pour être sans désirs. Qu'est-ce que le monde peut m'offrir de bon ? Tout doit te manquer, tu dois manquer de tout ! Voilà l'éternel refrain qui tinte aux oreilles de chacun de nous, et ce que, toute notre vie, chaque heure nous répète d'une voix cassée.

Mas tinha mesmo de ser assim, que aquilo que perfa a felicidade do homem também seja a fonte de sua miséria?

Iznad naroda je ljudskost.

Natura nu mai g?se?te nicio ie?ire din labirintul for?elor încâlcite ?i contradictorii, ?i atunci omul trebuie s? moar?.

En horas de profunda impiedad, planeamos la aniquilación del género humano, lo más miserable que hemos urdido se acomoda a su devoción.

Wenn wir die Menschen nur nehmen wie sie sind, so machen wir sie schlechter. Wenn wir sie behandeln, als wären sie, was sie sein sollten, so bringen wir sie dahin, wohin sie zu bringen sind.

Quiero disfrutar dentro de mí lo que ha disfrutado el conjunto de la humanidad. Quiero apresar con mi espíritu lo más elevado y lo más sumido en la profundidad, amontonar su ventura y su dolor en mi pecho y, de esta manera, ampliar mi yo y convertirlo en el suyo, y, al final, sucumbir como ella misma.

Human beings are much of a muchness. Most spend th greater part of their time working in order to live, and what bit of freedom they are left with makes them so anxious they strive by all available means to be rid of it.

Friend, we are all human, and the bit of sense any one of us might have is of little or no use when the passions rage and by the constraints of being human we are put under duress." [...] And we parted, not having understood one other. But then here on earth no one ever easily understands anyone else.

Solch ein Gewimmel möcht ich sehn auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen: Verweile doch du bist so schön!...

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values.

How little humane feeling after all was to be found in men's hearts; how much coarseness and cruelty was to be found even in the educated and those who were everywhere regarded as good and honorable men.

Isteže vieme, že na svete je dos? tvárí, ktoré príroda vytvorila bez dlhého uvažovania, nepoužila nijaké jemné nástroje, ako pilníky, dlátka, nebožiec, ale tesala iba nahrubo; zahnala sa sekerou a bol z toho nos, zahnala sa druhý, vznikli pery, ve?kým vrtákom vylúpla o?i, ni? neohob?ovala, a len vystr?ila na boží svet so slovami: Ži si!

Czym?e jest nasze ?ycie? Dolin?, w której zamieszka?a gorycz. Czym jest ?wiat? Nieczu?ym t?umem ludzi.

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse.

If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

La peor soledad que hay es darse cuenta de que la gente es idiota

Ni para Dios ni para mí hay reyes ni vasallos, sino sólo hombres y mujeres. Tampoco hay Estados, ni monarquías. Todo eso lo habéis inventado vosotros, y pretendéis involucrarnos en vuestras peleas. Pero, para nosotros, no hay hugonotes ni católicos, ni hay cristianos ni turcos, sino hombres de buena o mala voluntad. Los de mala voluntad son los que a mí me tocan, y ya estoy harto.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

God has made us this way, in his own image, because he himself is a personal, relational being.

It was the centuries-old battle of man to keep his race alive and push forward into the future, the ceaseless, furious struggle of that beastlike, god-like—primitive, sophisticated—savage and civilized—composite organism that was the human race fighting to endure and push onward. Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.