Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: truth humanity society suicide Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: humanity progress change responsibility caution playfulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral. —Avicenna More about this quote Tags: humanity love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important. —Linda Marie Fedigan More about this quote Tags: humanity reality accomplishment self thinking human nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is the only animal who has to be encouraged to live. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: humanity life animal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men have become the tools of their tools. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: humanity power purpose tools distraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we cultivate and care about inwardly either freshens or poisons the bloodstream of humanity. —Robert Corin Morris More about this quote Tags: humanity self care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Tags: humanity evil belief men wickedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. —Desmond Morris More about this quote Tags: humanity questions survival doubt answers investigation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. —Sigmund Freud More about this quote Tags: humanity love work humanness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. …This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains… an uprooted small corner of evil. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More about this quote Tags: humanity politics evil good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. —H. L. Mencken in Minority Report More about this quote Tags: humanity power greed idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women have the power of life and death. We, after all, give birth and the fate of humanity is in our hands. That is why men try so hard to rule us, my dear. They know if we once looked well on what they have made of the human existence, we might close our legs and within our barren wombs bring the comedy to an end. —Alice Borchardt More about this quote Tags: humanity life death women birth men Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I used to say, watching two elderly women crossing the street in flowered hats, holding each other's arms, "Look at those cute old ladies." I didn't mind the stereotypes that pepper movies and television shows. Now old people are no longer cute or mean or silly or wise to me. They are people, in all their broken fullness. Despite the glitches in faculties and functioning, anyone who's lived that long has learned something the rest of us don't know. —Tarn Wilson More about this quote Tags: humanity old age fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email