Freud kdysi řekl, že lidstvo zažilo tři velké urážky: nejdříve uslyšelo, že země není středem vesmíru, pak se dovědělo, že člověk pochází z opice, a nakonec mu psychoanalytici řekli, že člověk není pánem ve vlastním...

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs...

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man’s cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior...

People have always wanted to ‘improve’ human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

By all means, become an abomination–but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one’s proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

We are the beauty of the worldenveloped within the confines of a human structure:created out of love to lovefor all of eternity.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first—and lost—home. By the example...

We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the...

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

May we have equal concern for each other to create a unified world.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they’ve rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

Freedom begins with respect for the freedom of others.

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying...

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This...

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog’s heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

horrific pattern of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

I wonder what could happen if self-confessed followers of Jesus surrendered our human powers, and our desires for power, and began to celebrate openly our human weakness in exchange for the experience of Christ as...

The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult–to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization–not to sound either defensive or...

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

P nă și lectura are o funcție mitologică, nu numai pentru că înlocuiește rostirea miturilor în societățile arhaice și literatura orală, care se mai păstrează în comunitățile rurale din Europa, ci mai ales pentru că...

En el aspecto social, la inclusión es el principio básico. Nuestro lema son los pobres primero y para los pobres los mejores instrumentos, los mejores maestros, las mejores infraestructuras. La cultura para los pobres no...

There is no more destructive force in human affairs — not greed, not hatred — than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.

How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak,...

I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me,...

I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers, trees, animals, and all the works of Nature as they pass before us...

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don’t have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude...

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not...

When we move about the planet seeing with the eyes of the heart, we connect with humanity on the deepest level possible and remember one of our soul’s promises: to bring the wonders of Heaven,...

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.

Once someone asked me, “What do you want to be your epitaph?” So I said, “Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

In wars, it is always the children who suffer the most.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.