Quotes About Humanity

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

Las verdades no están en la circunferencia de un círculo cuyo centro es el hombre. Las verdades se levantan en parajes fragosos que el hombre recorre siguiendo los meandros de una senda sinuosa que las revela, las oculta, finalmente las ostenta o las esconde.

The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

Rulers who represent only a minority have to invent civilization in order not to perish. The delegates of a majority, on the other hand, can be vulgar, rude, cruel, with impunity. The greater the majority that supports him, the less cautious the ruler is, the less tolerant, the less respectful of human diversity. When rulers deem themselves governors of all humanity, terror is near.

The fervor of the homage which the democrat renders to humanity is comparable only to the coldness with which he disrespects the individual. The reactionary disdains man, without meeting an individual he scorns. Treating an inferior with respect and affection is the classic syndrome of the reactionary psychosis.

De menselijke warmte in een samenleving wordt minder naar de mate waarin haar wetgeving volmaakter wordt.

Man no longer knows how to invent anything that does not serve to kill better or to make the world a little more vulgar.

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

History is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.

The individual today rebels against immutable human nature so that he might refrain from amending his own correctable nature.

Humanity is not cured of its diseases except by means of catastrophes that decimate it. Man has never known how to renounce at the right time.

Da nicht einmal das Böse auf Erden rein ist, hat jede der drei demokratischen Wellen dem Menschen eine klarere Vorstellung gebracht: Die erste die von der Seele, die zweite die vom transzendenten Gott, die dritte die von der Geschichte: Platonismus, alexandrinische Theologie, Romantik.

La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna.

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

Between animal and man there is no barrier but a palisade of taboos.

Democracy celebrates the cult of humanity on a pyramid of skulls.

The reactionary invented the dialogue upon observing differences among men and the variety of their intentions. The democrat engages in a monologue, because humanity expresses itself through his mouth.

When he repudiates rites, man reduces himself to an animal that copulates and eats.

The word "humanity" in the mouth of a Catholic is a sign of apostasy, in the unbeliever's a sign of coming bloodbaths.

El progresista sueña en la estabulación científica de la humanidad.

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums.

The universe takes revenge on those who treat it as an inanimate mechanism not by making them die humiliated, but rather prosperous and brutish.