#mankind

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#cruelty #mankind #art

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth. He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare. ↗

— Toba Beta

#dream #mankind #reality #beauty

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts. ↗

— Iain Pears

#body #civilization #continuance #mankind #materialism

If you seek for supreme predator, go find God. He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan. ↗

— Toba Beta

#devil #food #god #hunter #life

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#human-behavior #human-nature #humanism #humankind #love

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #extravagant #fever #his #ill

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#mankind #never #reform #religion #slavery

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man. ↗

— Aberjhani

#agape-love #community #existence #history #human-nature

Aku kira dan bagiku itulah kesadaran sejarah. Sadar akan hidup dan kesia-siaan nilai. ↗

— Soe Hok Gie

#life #mankind #life