Quotes About Humanity

To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

Es una realidad que la historia de la humanidad es hermosa, es una pena que la del humano sea tan triste.

Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.

Es en el objeto finito que crea, donde el hombre, encontrará un reflejo fijo de su trascendencia.

erkeÄŸin tanr?lar? göÄŸün öylesine ?rak bir köÅŸesindedirler ki, gerçekte, tanr? falan yoktur onun için: küçük k?zsa, insan yüzlü tanr?lar aras?nda yaÅŸar.

Qué esperamos pues del otro? Estaría equivocada en esperar que el otro me llevara lejos a través de un devenir sin fin: ningún acto humano se propaga hasta el infinito. Lo que otro crea a partir de mí no es ya mío.

The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly all those who believe they have this capacity do not. Warmth, movements of the heart, and pity are not sufficient.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.

Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

God is not present, even if we invoke him, where the afflicted are merely regarded as an occasion for doing good. They may even be loved on this account, but then they are in their natural role, the role of matter and of things. We have to bring to them in their inert, anonymous condition a personal love....In true love it is not we who love the afflicted in God; it is God in us who loves them.

Such is the power of might. Its power to transform man into a thing is double and it cuts both ways; it petrifies differently but equally the souls of those who suffer it, and of those who wield it.

Suffering: superiority of man over God. The Incarnation was necessary so that this superiority should not be scandalous.

A gyilkosság bosszú azért, hogy halandók vagyunk.

Ori de câte ori m? gândesc la crucificarea lui Hristos, s?vâÅŸesc p?catul invidiei.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace . (Routledge; 1 edition, November 14, 2002) Originally published 1947.

Arriba se está en mala posición para darse cuenta de las cosas, y abajo para actuar. Creo que ahí radica de manera general una de las causas esenciales de las desgracias humanas. Es por eso que he querido ir yo misma abajo de todo, y por lo que quizá volveré. Simone Weil. Carta a Victor Bernard

The fullness of love for neighbor is simply the capacity to ask the question, 'What is your agony?' It is to know (recognize) that the afflicted exist, not as a unit in a collection, nor as an example of a social category labeled 'the afflicted,' but in all their humanity, exactly like us, who have been stamped and marked by an inimitable mark, by their affliction.

we are not aware of what is most essentially bad in us.

Il faut éliminer le malheur autant qu'on le peut de la vie sociale, car le malheur ne sert qu'à la grâce et la société n'est pas une société d'élus. Il y aura toujours assez de malheur pour les élus.