Browsing Quotes With Tag: humanity (66)
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Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are no ordinary people. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
To make a poem of the human conscience, even in terms of a single man and the least of men, would be to merge all epics in a single epic transcending all… To peer at certain moments into the withdrawn face of a human being in the act of reflection, to see something of what lies behind their outward silence, is to discern struggle on a Homeric scale, conflicts of dragons and hydras, aerial hosts as in Milton, towering vistas as in Dante. The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movements of his spirit with the acts of his life, is an overpowering thing.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Do you think words have answers?” I asked.
“It depends on your questions,” said Byrd. “But”- she turned her head to look at me over Sophie- “you should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.”
I stared at her.
“Sometimes poetry – words – give us a small, lovely look at ourselves,” said Byrd. “And sometimes that is enough.”
There was silence.
“Sometimes,” Byrd added in a soft voice.Speaker: Patricia MacLachlanSource: BabyPosted: 29 Aug 2008 at 8:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Speaker: Anatole FranceSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Speaker: Colin WilsonSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Speaker: Vida D. ScudderSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not everybody is going to like you. In fact, some people are going to hate and detest you. And it’s the very things that some like most about you that others will find the most repulsive. This is the human condition. You can’t please everybody. Don’t even try.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Speaker: Gene FowlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Broad complexity, but shallow; this is the way of man.
Speaker: President MarvinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men will work hard for money. [Men] will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause… Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
Speaker: Harry Emerson FosdickPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perilous times? Yes. These are perilous times. But the human race has lived imperil from the time before the earth was created. Somehow, through all of the darkness, there has been a faint but beautiful light. And now with added luster it shines upon the world.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man’s ingenuity knows no end when the God of heaven inspires and pours out light and knowledge.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ed said
When man found the mirror
They began to lose their souls.
He point, of course, is that
They began to concern themselves
With their images rather than
Their selves.
Other men’s eyes are mirrors
But the most distorting kind
For, if you look to them, you can only see
Reflections of your reflections,
Your warpings of their warpings.Speaker: Stan HermanSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Source: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“In those days they had eyes, but sight was meaningless;
Heard sounds, but could not listen; all their length of life
They passed like shapes in dreams, confused and purposeless.” PrometheusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!