Quotes About Humanity

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

We must in the end acknowledge the infirmity of our nature

Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare.

Daha zor olan?, daha güzel olarak addetmek ölümlülerin ortak kusurudur.

A time when an exhausted sky sinks deep into the earth and man in his death agony is scorned on both sides.

Ihminen vailla puutteita on vuori vailla rotkoja.

Var olan evcil domuzlar?n?za boyun e?in siz. Var olmayan tanr?lar?m?n yolundan gidece?im ben. ?nsan kalaca??z biz ba???lanmazl?k pahas?na.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

In a truly global world, the renunciation of violent reprisal is bound to become, in a more and more obvious way, the indispensable condition of our survival.

The commandment that prohibits desiring the goods of one's neighbor attempts to resolve the number one problem of every human community: internal violence.

Like Hölderlin, I think that Christ alone allows us to face this reality without sinking into madness. The apocalypse does not announce the end of the world; it creates hope.

Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.

Human culture is fundamentally and originally religious, rather than secondarily and supplementally.

If the desire of children were not mimetic, if they did not of necessity choose for models the human beings who surround them, humanity would have neither language nor culture.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Lev. 19:18) ; that is, you shall love your neighbor neither more nor less than yourself. The rivalries of desires tend to become exasperated, and as they do, they tend to contaminate third parties who are just as addicted as we are to the entanglements of mimetic rivalries.

Markus Müller, "Interview with René Girard," Anthropoetics 2, no. 1 (June 1996): 3–5. 2

Humankind is that creature who lost a part of its animal instinct in order to gain access to "desire," as it is called. Once their natural needs are satisfied, humans desire intensely, but they don't know exactly what they desire, for no instinct guides them. We do not each have our own desire, one really our own. The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to borrow their desires.

So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one 'civilization', at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible.

les psychologues, par exemple, limitent ordinairement leurs observations à un seul type d'humanité, l'Occidental moderne, et ils étendent abusivement les résultats ainsi obtenus jusqu'à prétendre en faire, sans exception, des caractères de l'homme en général.

En este trapo de mundo todos somos sirvientes. ... Sólo que algunos no se dan cuenta.

Being human is a portal into your divinity."

Stone is replaced by concrete, literature is replaced by journalism, journalism is replaced by information, man is replaced by woman, man and woman are replaced by robots, robots are replaced by cyborgs, and maybe humanity is replaced by post-humanity or trans humanity, i do think replacement is central to the modern society.

If you want to restore your faith in humanity, think about Christmas. If you want to destroy it again, think about Christmas shopping. But the gifts aren't the important thing about the holidays. The important thing is having your family around resenting you.

I made a mental note not to give up all hope in humankind.