Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the...

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

People? They usually ask only stupid questions, forcing you to reply with equally stupid answers. For instance, they ask you what you do, not what you would have liked to do. They ask you what...

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses,...

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Let us ask ourselves; ”What kind of people do we think we are?”

In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion...

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same...

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the...

Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer...

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Language is a social energy, and our capacity for articulate speech is the key factor that makes us different from other species. We are not as fast as cheetahs – or even as horses. Nor...

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Pourquoi nous haïr? Nous sommes solidaires, emportés par la même planête, équipage d’un même navire. Et s’il est bon que des civilisations s’opposent pour favoriser des synthèses nouvelles, il est monstrueux qu’elles s’entre-dévorent.Puisqu’il suffit, pour...

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr’s sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately,...

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

Every religion should be in favor of humankind.

Il me semble qu’ils confondent but et moyen ceux qui s’effraient par trop de nos progrès techniques. Quiconque lutte dans l’unique espoir de biens matériels, en effet, ne récolte rien qui vaille de vivre. Mais...

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ”What’s it for?”

je dis civilisé le peuple qui compose ses danses, malgré qu’il ne soit pour les danses ni récolte ni greniers. Alors que je dis brut le peuple qui aligne sur ses étagères des objets, fussent-ils...

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know,...

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is...

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Nothing in the history of humankind has been disrespected as much as nature.

Even in the most compassionate, humankind’s limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

si tu examines mon empire tu t’en iras voir les forgerons et les trouveras forgeant des clous et se passionnant pour les clous et te chantant les cantiques de la clouterie. Puis tu t’en iras...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by...

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind’s history must be scored bloody with heartbreak....

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those...

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where...

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil...

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind...

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a...

We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.