Quotes About Humanity

But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence.

Life strove mightily to exile orthodoxy, hospitalize heresy, and trap humanity into stupidity. It was an accumulation of used bandages soiled with layers of blood and pus. Life was the daily changing of the bandages of the heart that made the incurably sick, young and old alike, cry out in pain.

I have been self-reliant to the point of sadness. I wonder when I first fell into the habit of washing my hands after each brush with humanity, lest I be contaminated.

Besides, like a man who knows he is dying, he felt a need to be equally tender to all.

Man does not live simply in order to die.

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.

It's not so much the harming of people's bodies I find objectionable, but of their hearts.

A todo el mundo le ocurre lo mismo, todos los seres humanos son iguales- replicó el viejo escritor, alzando la voz. -Pero creer lo contrario es el privilegio de la juventud.

A telephone - it seems a long time since I last saw one. It's a strange device, constantly entangling the emotions of human beings within itself, yet capable of uttering nothing more than a simple bell tone. Doesn't it feel any pain from all the loves, the hatreds, and the desires that pass through it? Or is the sound of that bell really a scream of the pain, convulsive and unendurable, that the telephone continually inflicts?

The earth is surrounded by death. The upper regions, where there is no air, are crowded with death pure and unalloyed; it gazes down on humanity going about its business far below and bound by its physical conditions on earth, yet very seldom does it bring bodily death to man, since those same physical conditions prevent him from climbing this far. For man to encounter the universe as he is, with uncovered countenance, is death.

Other people are all witnesses. If no other people exists, shame would never be born in the world.

Yo siempre me había sentido orgullosa de mi moral y empecé a pensar que todo aquello que rodeaba al sexo no hacía más que embrutecer y empequeñecer a los seres humanos.

He integrado una delicada maquinaria para averiguar lo que sentiría de ser humano.

He was fully aware that beauty is a thing which must sleep and which, in sleeping, must be protected by knowledge. But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence. I think that is what he wanted to say.

Il governo dell'Imperatore fu tinto di due colori: rosso sangue fino al termine della guerra, e dopo iniziò l'epoca del languido grigio cenere. L'Impero fu inonandato di sangue dal giorno in cui Sua Maestà abbandonò alla loro sorte i nostri fratelli maggiori, e si ricoprì di vana cenere il giorno in cui dichiarò la sua umanità, il giorno in cui definì tutto ciò che era accaduto "una concezione immaginaria

In short, spirit must be viewed as the special characteristic that differentiates man from the animals. It is the only essential difference.

Hay ciertas ocasiones en las que los seres humanos creen que pueden conseguirlo todo. En estos momentos, cuando todo su ser está empapado de esta creencia, ven muchas cosas que normalmente son invisibles para los ojos humanos. Luego, pasado un tiempo, incluso después de haber descendido hasta el fondo del pozo de la memoria, estos momentos reviven unos instantes y de nuevo les recuerdan a los hombres la milagrosa plenitud de las penas y las alegrías del mundo.

Just as evil never dies, neither does the sentimental.

Bir amip olsaydim,surekli bolunebilir bir tek hucreli olsaydim,cirkinligi yenerdim,diye dusundu. Oysa insan hicbir seyi yenebilecek oranda buyuk veya kucuk degildi.

L'umanità è concorde nella decisione di sopravvivere.- Non servono né liberazioni di colombe né bande militari. Basterebbe una frase simile per dare inizio a una fresca e tranquilla giornata, e l'universo intero saprebbe che da quell'istante la terra è divenuta una stella meravigliosa .

It is because human beings always think of living for some kind of ideal, and they soon get bored of living just for themselves.

To love the world is to be afflicted.

People who live in cold climes must keep warm by kindness," Orvo spoke softly in reply. "I think that is how every person should be. Kindness -- it's the same as having a head, a nose, a pair of feet . . . There are many nations living on the earth. Each of their people carries a seed of suspicion toward those not of their own tribe. Oftentimes, they won't even see the people of another tribe as real human beings. . . .

as human beings, no matter how many tears we have to shed in order to learn a lesson, the moment the tears are dry, we forget. That's the type of beings we are.