Quotes About Humanity

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

The only thing that went wrong was the human race itself.

The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought. And only the phoenix lives forever.

A pillar of trash once affirmed of itself (unwittingly) and others I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience, most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature, and seeing it so by surprise and often with a most improbable background, you come, with a sense of pleasant thankfulness, to realize how widely scattered in the world are goodness and courtesy and the love of immaterial things, fair blossoms found in every climate, on every soil.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

Ja, vergiß nur, daß es Menschen gibt, darbendes, angefochtenes, tausendfach geärgertes Herz! und kehre wieder dahin, wo du ausgingst, in die Arme der Natur, der wandellosen, stillen und schönen.

Hield mij aan't leven der mensen dit hart maar niet meer gebonden, dat van liefde niet aflaat, hoe graag zou ik mét u hier wonen!

Being at one is godlike and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way.

El hombre es un dios cuando sueña y un mendigo cuando reflexiona

Wie unvermögend ist doch der gutwilligste Fleiß der Menschen gegen die Allmacht der ungeteilten Begeisterung!

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.