Humanity Quote by Leo Tolstoy

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person…

— Gregory Bateson

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own…

— Cesare Pavese

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

— Stephen Batchelor

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

— Anonymous

“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very…

— Richard Tarnas

“we directly experience that it knows, feels, and wills. In the third place, we experience that there exists some power unifying the intellectual, emotional,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“: Whether we are aware of it or not, we will refine the quality of our humanity throughout the course of our lives. More…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Only by honoring the greater truths (the macrocosmic truth) may we begin to honor our subjective truths (our microcosmic truth). This is a recognition…

— Tehya Sky

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

— Karen Armstrong

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the…

— Walter Lippmann

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that…

— Anita Shreve

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

— Anagarika Govinda