To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be human.
Human - Humanity Quotes
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
When people try to find an ultimate meaning and value in human life, their minds seem to go in a certain direction. They have not been coerced to do this; it is something that seems natural to humanity.
Whenever I meet anyone, even a stranger, I have always the same feeling: ‘I am meeting another member of the human family.’ This attitude has deepened my affection and respect for all beings. May this natural wish be my small contribution to world peace. I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and a more […]
Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families – I call it the human condition.
We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational… Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human […]
The idea that defines all humanism is that the world is not a given world, foreign to man, one to which he has to force himself to yield from without. It is the world willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.
Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all passions subdued, all matters subjected, mind, all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail! Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods […]
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Human beings do not do all evil of which they are capable.