Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

as something good as man”.

If we only say what we feel, then we merely dwell in that which keeps us zeal.

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

The best charity to serve humanity is just a person’s simplicity of living with his basic necessity

Being happy at others cost…not a sign of humanity.

We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way...

Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow;...

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even...

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

natural” (oh, weaselly word!) order of things?Why? Because of this:—one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual,...

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell...

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don’t have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity...

Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes...

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say...

We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God...

“Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type: begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing. That is because we are...

If you kill, kidnap & rape your opponents claiming that you’re fighting the terrorist that is not exist!Soon it’ll be existing as you’re sowing it!Miserable Egypt!

I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies, as they do, and have changed their emotions, as they do — that...

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no...

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

How—I didn’t know anyword for it—how “unlikely”. . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn’t?

They spend billions of their currency every year on killing each other, and because they invest so much into killing, they don’t have enough money to run their shops, to give people enough homes or...

… one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn’t aspire to the perfection of...

In the old world, we tend to drift along, victims to our own ignorance of the fact, that we can have what we want in the New World.

Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.

…the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world. t

Three essential keys (FAITH, HOPE and LOVE) will open the Heavens door.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

You are the last hope of humanity; don’t make the world regret.

We are in the world to support one another.

Humanity’s favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn’t know.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I’ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the...

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution – A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity.

The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes! There is Muhammad, the...

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unlike.

And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so...

Now You Know!

What think’st thou then of mee, and this my State,Seem I to thee sufficiently possestOf happiness, or not? who am alone From all Eternitie, for none I knowSecond to mee or like, equal much less.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Humanity is so adaptable […] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.