Quotes About Humanity

I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human diet was rather destructive.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

Beauty is found in the way you treat others.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence