Quotes About Humanity

O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in what great dangers ye spend this little span of years!

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Aren't we all monsters inside?

The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.

Every person who is rendering no good to humanity is useless, no matter how hard they work. Head work and hand work are equally hard and equally useful if rightly applied. All people, rich and poor, are working at something; perhaps one at useful labor, the other at useless labor. Nevertheless they are each and all using their energies at some occupation.

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]

Love determined God to the renunciation of his divinity.

If thy predicates are anthropomorphisms, the subject is an anthropomorphism too.

My life is bound … ; not so the life of humanity, … [T]he future always unveils the fact that the alleged limits of the species were only limits of individuals. … [S]triking proofs of this are presented by the history of philosophy and … physical science. … Thus the species is unlimited; the individual alone limited.

M]an in religion – in his relation to God – is in relation to his own nature[.]

W]e people the other planets, not that we may place there different beings from ourselves, but more beings of our own and similar nature.

It is not I, but religion that worships man, although religion, or rather theology, denies this; it is not I, an insignificant individual, but religion itself that says: God is man, man is God

If all men were absolutely alike, … a single man would have achieved the end of the species.

T]he essence of man is one, but this essence is infinite; … Between me and another human being - … , even though he is only one, … he supplies to me the want of many others, has … a universal significance, is the deputy of mankind, … In another I … have the consciousness of humanity; … I … learn, I … feel, that I am a man: … community constitutes humanity.

God is the mirror of man.

As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even his political vindictiveness; so the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world. [T]hat is, indeed, only of man considered as Christian; for Christianity, in contradiction with the genuine universal human heart, recognised man only under the condition, the limitation, of belief in Christ.

Samo je grob ?ovekov kolevka bogova.

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

Wherefore, fond wretch, dost thou grieve thus, for what is now a hideous mass of mortality — mere bones, and nerves, and veins? Nations have fallen unlamented; even worlds themselves, long ere this globe of ours was created, have mouldered into nothing; nor hath any one wept over them; why then should'st thou indulge this vain affliction for a child of the dust — a being as frail as thyself, and like thee the creature but of a moment?

The only sign of "superiority" I acknowledge in Man is goodness.

I love a tree more than a man.

It is not from a disdain of spiritual goods that liberalism concerns itself exclusively with man's material well-being, but from a conviction that what is highest and deepest in man cannot be touched by any outward regulation.