How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

The Whites always mean well when they take human fish out of the ocean and try to make them dry and warm and happy and comfortable in a chicken coop; but the kindest-hearted white man...

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

I am more human than rational.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(…) On the other hand, you’re a human -you should understand self obsession.

…a large segment of our population appears to have moved, in its cultural beliefs, to the use of an “ideal” measuring implement, based particularly on the individual’s self-assessment of what “one’s life should be like,”...

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, of an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be...

Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the...

Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God’s theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers,...

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.

BE the light you already are.

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison.

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.

The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves.

I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out to everything. Next to the megalithic institutionalized shredding of people’s humanity,...

They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they...

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out,” said the shopkeeper. “That’s what I’ve always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

I’m tired of hating people

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators...

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that’s not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life’s basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Practising honestly the simplicity in life is an act of humanity so, in fact, a true spirituality which is always a service to an omnipresent, invisible power called God Almighty.

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the...

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,With too...

The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves...

The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system.

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that...

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

Uko wapi ubinadamu wa watu?

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed...

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can...

The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.