logo

Quotes About Humanity

But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.
~ Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love each other.
~ Jonathan Swift
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift
Bütün bana anlatt?klar?n?zdan, sorular?ma verdiÄŸiniz yan?tlardan, ülkeniz halk?ndan birçoÄŸunun, yeryüzünün en aptal ve en kötü yarat?klar? olduÄŸu sonucunu ç?kar?yorum.
~ Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
~ panegyrical
El envejecimiento (igual que la muerte) es una de las pocas características democráticas y ecuánimes de nuestra condición humana; algo que nos unifica y define a todos más allá de nuestras diversidades y de la realidad de un mundo tan cambiante
~ Jorge Bucay
Dejar atrás la identidad prestada, que entre muchos construyeron para mí, creyendo que era lo mejor, para salir a descubrir mi verdadera identidad, elástica y cambiante, siempre en proceso, que nos hace no solo únicos e irrepetibles, si no también creativos, inteligentes, humanos y potencialmente infinitos.
~ Jorge Bucay
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Tres suertes puede correr un libro de versos: puede ser adjudicado al olvido, puedo no dejar una sola línea pero sí una imagen total del hombre que lo hizo, puede legar a las antologías unos pocos poemas...
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I thought that a man might be an enemy of other men, of the differing moments of other men, but never an enemy of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams, or the West wind.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Essere immortale è cosa da poco: tranne l'uomo, tutte le creature lo sono, giacché ignorano la morte; la cosa divina, terribile, incomprensibile, è sapersi immortali.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden contaminates the human race; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew suffices to safe it. Perhaps Schopenhauer is right: I am all others, any men is all men, Shakespeare is in some way the wretched John Vincent Moon.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Sabemos que el pasado, el presente y el porvenir ya están, minucia por minucia, en la profética mente de Dios, en Su eternidad; lo extraño es que los hombres puedan mirar, indefinidamente, hacia atrás pero no hacia adelante.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres. Por eso no es injusto que una desobediencia en un jardín contamine al género humano; por eso no es injusto que la crucifixión de un solo judío baste para salvarlo. Acaso Schopenhauer tiene razón: yo soy los otros, cualquier hombre es todos los hombres, Shakespeare es de algún modo el miserable John Vincent Moon.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I tada, kao i danas, svet beše surov; samo su ga sr?ani mogli proputovati, ali i bednici, koji se na sve priviknu.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
un acto es menos que todas las horas de un hombre.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Russel /.../ antar att planeten har blivit skapad för några minuter sedan, >utrustad< med en mänsklighet som >minns< ett illusoriskt förflutet.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
All men, in the vertiginous moment of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Por muy basto que fuera el entendimiento de un hombre, siempre sería superior al de irracionales. El inmortal
~ Jorge Luís Borges