Ambiguity Quote by Thomas Hobbes

“The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.... And, on…

— Thomas Hobbes

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

— Marquis de Sade

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

— Confucius

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

— Jim Dodge

“Human reason is by nature architectonic." Critique of Pure Reason”

— Kant

To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."

— Talal Asad

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing but a…

— Marquis de Sade

Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such…

— Charles Buck

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was…

— John Steinbeck

“Being human means nothing if we cannot be humane. This cannot happen until we learn through science or spirituality that fundamentally, in life substratum…

— Fakeer Ishavardas

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

— Paul Feyerabend

“It was out of this river that the assassin's bullet came, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why. We accept, with the authorities,…

— Alfred Chester