Quotes About Humanity

He who regards all men as equals is religious.

Masa depan selalu menjanjikan harapan. Sebab Tuhan senantiasa menaburkan kebahagiaan. Jika kenyataan tida seperti yang kita inginkan, itulah cobaan. Dan kau harus yakin, Anakku, setiap cobaan adalah jenjang bagi kesempurnaan manusia

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

W]ir dürfen ... ruhig sagen, daß allen großen Gestaltungen des Mitlebens der Menschen ein Wahn vorgeleuchtet hat, daß die Menschen immer nur durch Wahn aneinander gebunden waren, daß immer nur der Wahn die Individuen zu höheren Organisationsformen und Gesamtheiten aufgebaut hat.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

Ng??i ta ?ã xây d?ng nhi?u ??n ?ài, nhi?u t??ng, nhi?u bàn th? nh?t cho nh?ng ng??i sáng t?o ra các ?o t??ng.(...) Không có ?o t??ng, con ng??i s? không th? thoát ra kh?i tình tr?ng dã man nguyên th?y, và n?u không còn chúng, con ng??i s? s?m r?i vào tình tr?ng ?y.

by the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.

Dices que tienes corazón, y sólo lo dices porque sientes sus latidos. Eso no es corazón...; es una máquina, que, al compás que se mueve, hace ruido.

Mientras la humanidad siempre avanzando, No sepa a do camina; Mientras haya un misterio para el hombre, ¡Habrá poesía!

Man is saved if he opens himself to God and to others, even if he is not clearly aware that he is doing so. This is valid for Christians and non-Christians alike -- for all people. . . . We can no longer speak properly of a profane world. A qualitative and intensive approach replaces a quantitative and extensive one.

I also wish I knew why millions of bright American children turn overnight into teenage nerds. The substitution of the automobile for the natural body, which our culture has effected in the most evil perversion of humanity since chivalry, is one cause; narcosis by drugs and Dionysian music is another.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

Few acts of kindness do as much to make the world a better place as when we choose to consciously bear our own meanness.

And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

He sometimes imagined them all, men and women, children, everyone in the world, sailing down the Sky River in the hugeness of the dark, surrounded by all the stars. Some tried to steer the ship. He had tried. But only the gods could do that, in the end.

I cannot speak for those who come after, or what the world will be. We are not made that way.

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.