Quotes About Humanity

Quien vive bien debe ser capaz de una justicia simpática, o de una compasión justa

Se trata de sentir simpatía por el otro (o si prefieres compasión, pues ambas voces tienen etimologías semejantes, la una derivando del griego y la otra del latín)

Los existencialistas no piensan en el hombre como especie, sino en su absoluta singularidad. En

Llegar al mundo es llegar a nuestro mundo, al mundo de los humanos.

Quienes son respetables son las personas, no las creencias. Las opiniones no son todas respetables. Si así hubiese sido, la humanidad no habría podido avanzar un solo paso.

No preguntes qué derecho tiene el otro a tu hospitalidad; sólo recuerda que tú también la necesitaste y la obtuviste; si no la obtuviste, recuerda que querías obtenerla y trata al otro como tú deseabas ser tratado, no como efectivamente te trataron.

and you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

I guess a good man IS hard to find!

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction.

She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

Usually by the time she had fallen asleep all the classes of people were moiling and roiling around in her head, and she would dream they were all crammed in together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.

Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.

Los dioses no estaban ya, y Cristo no estaba todavía, y de Cicerón a Marco Aurelio hubo un momento único en que el hombre estuvo solo.

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

Cuando los dioses ya no existían y Cristo no había aparecido aún, hubo un momento único, desde Cicerón hasta Marco Aurelio, en que sólo estuvo el hombre.

The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias.

Het is misschien monsterlijke hoogmoed, maar de duivel hale me als ik niet evenveel sympathie voor de luizen die een bedelaar opvreten, als voor de bedelaar zelf. Ik ben er trouwens even zeker van dat de mensen evenmin elkaars broeders zijn als de blaadjes in het bos gelijk zijn.: ze worden samen door de wind geteisterd, dat is alles.

Axiom : hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois , the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone , that is to say the literary men , who are the people, or to say it better : the tradition of humanity.

Therefore, so long as we live in this fallen world, we are simul iustus et peccator (saint and sinner simultaneously), until the destruction of the old Adam is completed as God makes all things new (Rev. 21:5; Isa. 42:9; 43:19; Gal. 6:15).

God did not change his mind about us on account of the cross or on any other account. He did not need to have his mind changed. He was never opposed to us. It is not his opposition to us but our opposition to him that had to be overcome, and the only way it could be overcome was from God's side, by God's initiative, from inside human flesh — the human flesh of the Son.44 The divine hostility, or wrath of God, has always been an aspect of his love.

101 God's justification of sinners is not a forgetting, nor is it simply forgiveness. It is a definitive, wholesale, final assault upon and defeat of Sin, understood as a Power, and the creation of a new humanity.