The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and...

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.

Man… knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man...

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Since the war, we’re the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how...

People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart,...

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied...

The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can overcome its majesty. The Quran has given new dimensions to human...

History shapes the lives of all men, women and children … sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it...

But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.

A selfless service to humanity is also a selfless service to God

USA drone attacks are a crime against humanity, We Need Humanity , More than Cleverness, We need kindness, We need all of Human qualities more than USA definition.. U.S.A Drone Program Needs to Be Accompanied...

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?”