Quotes About Humanity

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

All actual life is encounter.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

A man is a god in ruins.

I decline to accept the end of man.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.