Humanity Quotes - Page 81

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to sweep the public misunderstandings and the false notions off its own front walk. Thus will a pathway be cleared for popular appreciation of the important rule of business in our freedom and in our way of life.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.