Quotes About Humanity

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Demasiado tarde esta fiesta lujosa en honor de la muchacha polvorienta comida por el deseo. Demasiado tarde esta exhibición de piedad humana con sus límites y terminaciones. ¿Cuánto tiempo puede seguir llorando? ¿Cuánto han de darme sus ojos en esta noche impecable con estrellas que son estrellas y una luna real que no oscila?

Escribir un poema es reparar la herida fundamental, la desgarradura. Porque todos estamos heridos

PASTOR- Mi nombre verdadero es Juan. Poca cosa, ¿verdad? ¡Pero humano, señor, humano! Millares de Juanes han escrito libros y han plantado árboles. Millones de mujeres han dicho alguna vez en cualquier rincón del mundo <>. En cambio, ¿quién ha querido nunca al <>? Juan sabe a pueblo y a eternidad: es el hierro, la madera de roble, el pan de trigo. <> es el nylon.

Y a lo mejor esto constituye la más grande virtud del hombre, su toque divino. El último de los atorrantes de Flores es más interesante que una estrella, solamente porque su comportamiento no es predecible.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

Là, in quelle solitudini infinite, lui, eremita contumace, aveva imparato a stimare la compagnia degli esseri umani, aveva compreso i cani sempre ansiosi della presenza del padrone, aveva scoperto che l'altro è una forma di nutrimento, che l'uomo senza l'uomo muore di fame spirituale.

Could you explain to us what the tarot really is? The tarot is a metaphysical machine. An organism of images and forms that is very difficult to summarize, one of humanity's first optical languages.

Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will never know, and who, in turn, will suffer and hope and toil for others who will not be happy either, for man always seeks a happiness far beyond that which is meted out to him. But man's greatness consists in the very fact of wanting to be better than he is.

People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without beauty, love, and justice?

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Art extends each man's short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men's lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.