#humanity

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#counted #humanity #only #slow #strides

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#essence #humanity #individual #into #love

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#humanity #love #self-giving #beauty

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#am #denying #grim #humanity #i

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#essential #gave #god #gone #here

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#cause #freedom #human #humanity #kind

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#commerce #failure #humanity #me #often

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance ↗

— Helen Rowland

#mistakes-humanity #life