Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: insightful humanity philosophy
Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place. No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce- wind, seas- a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world- no flower or stone- as a single hello from a human being.
Lorrie MooreTags: humanity
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
Bahá'u'lláhTags: humanity
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander PopeTags: humanity mistakes forgiveness failure
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom RobbinsTags: humanity immaturity caution responsibility advancement play rebellion sobriety
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Carl BernsteinTags: life humanity culture idiocy
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph EllisonTags: life humanity control defeat
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George OrwellI have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: happiness humanity time human-nature perfection
I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.
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