Quotes About Humanity

Lucru aruncat într-un ungher,cârp? c?zut? în strad?,fiinÅ£a mea ignobil? în faÅ£a vieÅ£ii ia tot felul de forme...

M? încearc? un dezgust fizic fa?? de umanitatea vulgar?;de altfel,e singura care exist?.Iar uneori îmi îng?dui capriciul de a aprofunda acest dezgust,aÅŸa cum îÅ£i poÅ£i provoca voma ca s? te uÅŸurezi de senzaÅ£ia de vom?.

É tão difícil descrever o que se sente quando se sente que realmente se existe, e que a alma é uma entidade real, que não sei quais são as palavras humanas com que possa defini-lo.

Alcuni amministrano il mondo, altri sono il mondo.

Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist.

Indifferent to this, and grieving only as much as he needs to and for as little time as possible — over the death of a son, for example, whom he will forget as the years pass, except on his birthday; over the loss of money, which he mourns until he gets some more or becomes used to the loss — humanity continues digesting and loving. Life recovers and carries on. The dead are buried. Losses forgotten.

In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.

What would become of the world if we were human? If man really felt, there would be no civilization. Art is a refuge for the sensibility that action was obliged to forget.

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other, therefore, with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.

The voyage on the common sea towards some unknown place is perhaps more human than the abstract path to the world's void.

I reasoned that God, while improbable, might exist, in which case he should be worshipped; whereas Humanity, being a mere biological idea and signifying nothing more than the animal species we belong to, was no more deserving of worship than any other animal species. The cult of Humanity, with its rites of Freedom and Equality, always struck me as a revival of those ancient cults in which gods were like animals or had animal heads.

porque nunca há piedade para os aleijados do espírito

I suddenly felt something like tenderness for that man. I felt the tenderness one feels for common human banality, for the daily routine of the family breadwinner going to work, for his humble and happy home, for the happy and sad pleasures that necessarily make up his life, for the innocence of living without analysing, for the animal naturalness of that coat-covered back.

J'éprouve un dégoût physique pour l'humanité ordinaire ; c'est d'ailleurs la seule qui existe. Et la fantaisie me prend parfois d'approfondir ce dégoût, de même qu'on peut provoquer un vomissement pour soulager son envie de vomir.

Var olan tek s?r, bir s?r olduÄŸunu düÅŸünen insanlar?n olmas?d?r.

All of us, in some part or other, are loathsome. We all harbour a crime we've committed, or a crime that our soul doesn't let us commit.

Muerte somos y muerte vivimos. Nacemos muertos, muertos pasamos y muertos ya, irrumpimos en la Muerte.

Only one thing astonishes me more than the stupidity with which most people live their lives, and that's the intelligence of this stupidity.

Es necesario cierto coraje intelectual para que un individuo reconozca valerosamente que no pasa de ser un harapo humano, aborto superviviente, loco todavía fuera de las fronteras de la internabilidad;

Para mí, la humanidad es un vasto motivo de ornamentación que vive en los ojos y en los oídos y acaso en la emoción sicológica.

La letteratura, come tutta l'arte, è la confessione che la vita non basta.

I see humanity as merely one of Nature's latest schools of decorative painting. I don't distinguish in any fundamental way between a man and a tree, and I naturally prefer whichever is more decorative, whichever interests my thinking eyes.

Literature, which is art married to thought and the immaculate realization of reality, seems to me the goal towards which all human effort should be directed, as long as that effort is truly human and not just a vestige of the animal in us.

Pensar como espiritualistas, agir como materialistas. Não é absurda a doutrina: é, afinal, a doutrina espontânea da humanidade inteira.