Humanity Quotes

The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

if nothing endswhere do we begin?

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

Every human is unique every spirit is engaging.

Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

To care for others is called humanity.

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strength en the soul.

You are the light in the midst of darkness.

We are human beings with divine spirit.

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

Fools who don't respect the past are doomed to repeat it.

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past also lets us look beyond the horizons of what is, to see what could be.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

There is no denying it, our past stinks and seeps into our present. Occasionally I get such a potent whiff of history that my mind spins and my stomach lurches.

History is hallmark of humanity.

History of humanity is nothing but a history of loyalty!

Every one’s footprint is a landmark in the world history

The story we write today will support the next generation.

I am often appalled by those who make history, but inspired by those who do not.” -Morgana le Fey/Morgana Cornwall

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.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

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

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

The dogs brought it all back to, you know, to the human side.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity.

If you truly want LOVE to enter your Heart, you HAVE to give a DAMN about what's going on around you!!