Quotes About Humanity

We are living, she has come to believe, in a culture where people are not "getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings," and that is why we can't put down our smartphones, or bear to log off. We tell ourselves that we live so much of our lives in cyberspace because when we are there, we are connected—we are plugged into a swirling party with billions of people.

We're all on the same ball of mud and water that is heading toward a catastrophic end potentially. If we are going to solve these problems, we can't do it alone," he said. "That's why I think empathy is so valuable.

Depression and anxiety might, in one way, be the sanest reaction you have.6 It's a signal, saying—you shouldn't have to live this way, and if you aren't helped to find a better path, you will be missing out on so much that is best about being human.

He had a sense that the deterioration he was experiencing in his focus was happening to a lot of the people around him – but he also knew that at many points in history, people have thought they were experiencing some kind of disastrous social decline, when in fact, they were merely ageing. It's always tempting to confuse your personal decline for the decline of the human species.

Empathy makes progress possible, and every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

one of my biggest learnings as a designer or technologist is—making something easy to use doesn't mean it's good for humanity.

every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

reading fiction, over time, boosts your empathy.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Lieben ist menschlich, nur müsst Ihr menschlich lieben!

Ja wohl bin ich nur ein Wandrer, ein Waller auf der Erde! Seid ihr denn mehr?

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

[History is a] mixture of error and violence.

If you inquire what the people are like here,I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.