Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of...

Insomma una brutta domenica di settembre, di quel settembre traditore che vi lascia andare un colpo di mare fra capo e collo, come una schioppettata fra i fichidindia.

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently,...

All of us, all human beings, are basically inclined or disposes toward what we perceive to be good. Whatever we do, we do because we think it will be of some benefit. At the same...

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time...

ne tappavat itsensä kaasulla, vedellä, tulella,ampumalla, hirttämällä, hyppäämällä, tekemälläharakirin, vuotamalla kuiviin, syömällätabuja tai tarttumalla sähkööntoiset tallentavat itsensä videolleheinäsirkat saapuvatmaa väistyy altakalpeat miehet nousevat kellareistavitamiinipurkit taskuissa helistenonko olemassa ketäänjolla ei olisi luurankoapiilossa sängyn alla!

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomimes.

You reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.

Business is about profit, yes – and it is about more than profit: at its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

Si había cuestionado mi humanidad antes, ya no lo hacía. La forma en que me sentía por Noah era muy humana.

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I’m not just the end of childhood. I’m the end of humanity. And if you come from...

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light....

Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.

Humanity cannot maintain value in their pitiful existence without blind obedience.

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible...

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

I don’t think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we’re sitting here? Solving...

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the...

Any coward can instill fear. It’s easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that’s power.

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we’re ashamed of our bodies as to where it’s a law to wear fabrics,...

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there’s something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return,...

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk – lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic,...

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating...

When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in life.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

People aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re – we’re feeling machines that happen to think.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we...

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love — I scarcely dare say it —...

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ’emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or...

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes...

Humanity is higher than religion, so says my religion.

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world.

Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind,...

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write...

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality,...

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn is. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re...