Quotes About Humanity

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.