Human

"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say."

Khalil Gibran

Human

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Freedom and Servitude

Human

"The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking [...] the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

Albert Einstein

Human

Question and Problem

"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."

Will Rogers

Human

"The better I know men... the more I like dogs!"

Sacha Guitry

Human

Nature and Animals

"We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself."

Carl Gustav Jung

Human

"Man is a universe within himself."

Bob Marley

Human

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller

Dreams and Desires

Human

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Carl Gustav Jung

Health and Alcohol

Human

"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for."

Martin Buber

Human

"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

Bertrand Russell "Unpopular Essays"

Human

"Our true nationality is mankind."

Herbert George Wells

Human

Patriotism

"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Human

"General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

Joseph Joubert

Human

Manners and Ethics

"Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side."

Bob Marley

God and Religion

Human

"People in your life will come and go like the ocean tides, but few will leave such an imprint on your soul that it can not be washed away."

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Human

Memory

"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

Herbert George Wells

History and Nations

Human

"It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de

Human

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Human

"No one is without Christianity [...] Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."

William Faulkner

God and Religion

Human

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill

Human

Justice

"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

Socrates

Human

Joy and Sadness

"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

Martin Buber

God and Religion

Human

"I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."

Mahatma Gandhi

Good and Evil

Human

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

Bertrand Russell

Human

Nature and Animals

"Fear makes us feel our humanity."

Benjamin Disraeli "Vivian Grey"

Courage and Fear

Human

"The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air."

Rabindranath Tagore

Human

Nature and Animals

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

Voltaire "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Good and Evil

Human

"Men do no great things, only small things with great love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Human

Love

"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage."

John Galsworthy

Human

"Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

Human

Success and Fame

"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

God and Religion

Human

"We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."

Henry Louis Mencken

Human

Knowledge, Ignorance

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Margaret Mead

Human

"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Ernest Hemingway "The Old Man and The Sea"

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

William Faulkner

Human

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."

Albert Einstein

Human

Science and Technology

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows anybody."

Mark Twain "Following the Equator"

Human

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

Benjamin Disraeli "Vivian Grey"

Human

Power and Weakness

"What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium."

Simone Weil "Human Personality"

Human

"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."

Voltaire "Philosophical Dictionary"

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

"Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human

"The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey."

Mark Twain

Human

Nature and Animals

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

George Eliot "The Mill on the Floss"

Human

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the Universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. "

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Human

Intellect, Judgement

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

Martin Luther King

Human

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

George Eliot "Adam Bede"

Human