#humanity

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#commandment #done #every #express #god

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #carries #country #first #furthest

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely. ↗

— James Payn

#developed #even #feel #get #good

I have no faith in human perfectability. 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 Poe

#ago #effect #exertion #faith #happy

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#beauty #celibacy #even #having #humanity

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

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