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Quotes About Humanity

I will say that this is an adventure that every human being must go through – to learn to be anxious…Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
AÅŸa cum filozofia începe cu îndoiala, o via?? care s? poat? fi numit? uman? începe cu ironia.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Der Freiheit Inhalt, intellektuell gesehen, ist Wahrheit, und die Wahrheit macht den Menschen frei. Eben darum aber ist die Wahrheit ein Werk der Freiheit dergestalt, dass sie fort und fort die Wahrheit erzeugt.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El prójimo es la completamente incognoscible diversidad entre ser humano y ser humano, o bien es la eterna igualdad ante Dios.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Umorul are un scepticism mult mai profund decât ironia, fiindc? în sfera lui accentul cade asupra p?catului, nu asupra finitudinii. Nu-ÅŸi g?seÅŸte liniÅŸtea doar f?cându-l pe om s? fie om, ci f?cându-l pe om s? fie Dumnezeu-om.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El hombre es una síntesis de lo infinito y lo finito, de lo temporal y lo eterno, de libertad y necesidad; en resumen: es una síntesis. Una síntesis es una relación entre dos factores. Considerado desde este ángulo el hombre todavía no es un yo.»
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial
~ Soren Kierkegaard
the genuinely humane no generation learns from the foregoing
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Of one thing I am certain: No single people, tradition, religion, governmental form, ethical program, moral code, or civilization has had sufficient wisdom and goodness to set the pattern and govern he world in the was of peace, decency and mutual respect. I do not believe God ever intended it to be that way. He wants us to reach out and learn from the wisdom he has given to humanity over broad sweeps of time and place and personality.
~ S. Michael Wilcox
There are so many people, and they are so beautiful and hopeful. And they too are covered in holes. They each carry a bucket. And in each bucket is a hole. This is the song we're in.
~ Sabrina Orah Mark
To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.
~ Saint Jerome
We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.
~ Salley Vickers
Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.
~ Salley Vickers
Know thyself. Then know that you are a human being, a member of the species of mankind. So know first and foremost that you do not know, and what you claim to know is almost certainly a means of distracting yourself from what you really know.
~ Salley Vickers
without great wisdom and strength humankind should pray to be spared the experience of love.
~ Salley Vickers
Humanity, it seemed, was one of the galaxy's constants.
~ Sally Malcolm
Age and disease and death may destroy our physical being but it is other people who get inside us and damage our hearts and minds. The Other Side of You
~ Sally Vickers
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow the world.
~ Salman Rushdie
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
~ Salman Rushdie
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
~ Salman Rushdie
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
~ Salman Rushdie
Man is the Storytelling Animal, and that in stories are his identity, his meaning, and his lifeblood.
~ Salman Rushdie
human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions
~ Salman Rushdie
The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.
~ Salman Rushdie