Quotes About Humanity

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

THE FLESH is put for the whole person

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any–lifted from the no of all nothing–human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

King Christ,this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dared to call Himself a man.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.

Christ, what I wouldn't give to be something other than a human being.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.

Jesus' words, "Forgive them for they do not know what they do," also apply to yourself.

To know another human being in their essence, you don't really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story.