Quotes About Humanity

While illusion distorts reality for a moment, error can reign for a millennia in abstractions, throw its iron yoke over whole peoples and stifle the noblest impulses of humanity; those it cannot deceive are left in chains by those it has, by its slaves.

We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.

Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of mankind first diverge.

The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.

Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.

Cada um será tanto mais sociável quanto mais pobre for de espírito, e, em geral, mais vulgar (o que torna o homem saudável é justamente a sua pobreza interior). Pois, no mundo, não se tem muito além da escolha entre solidão e a vulgaridade.

The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;

For if the choice were given to any individual between his own destruction and that of the world, I do not need to say where it would land in the great majority.

To talk of rational beings apart from man is as if we attempted to talk of heavy beings apart from bodies.

El mundo es el infierno, y los hombres se dividen en almas atormentadas y diablos atormentadores.

The truth is that we ought to be wretched, and are so.

The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged dignity, but, on the contrary, to regard him as an object of pity.

une foule énorme de gens ne sont sur la terre que pour mettre finalement au monde, à la suite de longs et mystérieux croisements, un homme qui, entre mille, possédera quelque indépendance

Ninguém é realmente digno de inveja, e tantos são dignos de lástima!

Querer es esencialmente sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda la vida es por esencia dolor. Cuanto más elevado es el ser, más sufre... La vida del hombre no es más que una lucha por la existencia, con la certidumbre de resultar vencido...

the more a man belongs to posterity, in other words, to humanity in general, the more of an alien he is to his contemporaries; since his work is not meant for them as such, but only for them in so far as they form part of mankind at large; there is none of that familiar local color about his productions which would appeal to them; and so what he does, fails of recognition because it is strange.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole!

Her halk diÄŸer halklar? kötüler ve hepsi de hakl?.

The will of the individual is dwarfed by the will of the species - for every suicide, there are thousands of unwilling births.

Para conducir al hombre a un estado mejor, no bastaría con ponerle en un mundo mejor, sino que seria preciso de toda necesidad transformarle totalmente, hacer de modo que no sea lo que es y que llegara a ser lo que no es.

While illusion distorts reality for a moment, error can reign for millennia in abstractions, throw its iron yoke over whole peoples and stifle the noblest impulses of humanity; those it cannot deceive are left in chains by those it has, by its slaves.

It is an aristocratic feeling that nourishes the tendency to seclusion and solitude. All rascals are sociable, pitifully so. But that a human being is of a nobler kind first shows itself in the fact that he does not delight in others, but more and more prefers solitude to their company and then gradually, over the course of the years, comes to understand that, apart from rare exceptions, there is only one choice in the world, that between solitude and commonness.

Compassion is the most likely alleviation of the countless and multifarious sufferings with which our life is beset and which no one completely escapes, and at the same time compassion is the counterbalance to the burning egoism that fills all beings and often develops into malice

Gdyby?my przyj?li wolno?? woli, to ka?da ludzka czynno?? by?aby cudem nienadaj?cym si? wyt?umaczy?: skutkiem bez przyczyny.