We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But human flesh is weak. And the human spirit is weak as well — before curiosity, before desire, before doubt.” — Ruslana Pidsadiuk Copy Share Image
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The human race has always found a group to marginalize--every culture, every time, every race.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Every human is a combination of spirit and matter. You can change the form but you can't change the essence. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
“A revolution of human capacity known as Humanism emerged whereby knowledge of ancient customs was reexamined and reintroduced to the academic elite.” — Taylor Buck Copy Share Image
“Human race had never planned to show up in this universe. I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Bad things happen—wars, plagues, parents abandoning their children, the heartless preying on those with hearts—and no one, not a human or a… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Human achievement is based on collective intelligence—the nodes in the human neural network are people themselves. By each doing one thing and… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable… — Gyorgy Lukács Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for… — Anthony Lilles Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
There are two things eternal. Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not even sure about the universe — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A universal weakness of humanity is to equate the strength of an argument with their opinion of its maker.” — Iain Gately Copy Share Image
Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money has a power to amplify human personalities and reveal their true natures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
