Quotes about Humanity

Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.

As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...

God save us from ever ending, though billions have./ The world is blanketed by foregone deaths,/ small beads of ego, bright with appetite,/ whose pin-sized prick of light winked out,/ bequeathing Earth a jagged coral shelf/ unseen beneath the black unheeding waves.

Also ist mein Sohn ein Simpel.' In einer Hinsicht. Aber der größte Teil der Menschheit ist so. Weil es sonst zu schwer zu ertragen ist, Mensch zu sein. Im Gegensatz zu den Tieren wissen wir zu viel. Sie, die anderen Tiere, wissen gerade genug, um ihren Job zu machen und zu sterben. Um zu essen, zu schlafen, zu vögeln, Babys zu kriegen und zu sterben.

You can't live a perfect day unless you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." Einstein

Can we simply address what it means to be human? What is available to us in this brief moment when the universe lifts up in the form of a human sentient body and being and we live out our seventy, eighty, or ninety years (if that) and then dissolve back into the undifferentiated ocean of potential?

My religion is kindness. THE DALAI LAMA

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.