I have, in common with yourself, a desire to leave the world a little more human than if I had not lived; for a true humanity is, I believe, our nearest appraoch to Divinity, while we work out our atmospheric apprenticeships on the surface of this second-class planet.
Human - Humanity Quotes
Now you can’t say about loving your neighbor that you have no talent for it. It’s required of everyone. No, it isn’t harder for one than another. It only looks harder to the individual who is confronted with his own problems and can’t see someone else’s. Of course, the human race as a whole is […]
Humans can learn to like anything, that’s why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they’ll thrive – only the rat does as well.
Gentlemen, between two servants of Humanity, who appeared eighteen hundred years apart, there is a mysterious relation. Let us say it with a sentiment of profound respect. Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled.
Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Men have lost sight of distant horizons. Nobody writes for humanity, for civilization; they write for their country, their sect; to amuse their friends or annoy their enemies.
I use the word “Humanist” to mean someone who believes that man is just as much a natural phenomenon as an animal or a plant; that his body, mind or soul were not supernaturally created but are products of evolution, and that he is not under the control or guidance of any supernatural being, but […]
