H Quotes
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“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”
Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“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.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Humanity has always been controlled by two sides and never did its accomplishments been ignored but overseen and manipulated by those in power. The truth, however, is never accepted by the ones who keep on paying the price for the untruths they embrace. In doing so, they keep the most important truths hidden from themselves, for their level of consciousness cannot go beyond their ego — the belief that they have not been massively fooled.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.”
“Humanity has been fetishizing the end of the world ever since we invented its beginning. It’s just easier to destroy it than to heal it, I guess. Chalk it up to our intellectually lazy nature.”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“Humanity has been living under a dark and destructive self-condemnation. Humanity has been poisoned and condemned, so that nobody thinks himself a beautiful being, nobody thinks himself worthy enough. If
you condemn yourself, how can you grow and how can you worship existence? If you cannot worship existence within yourself, how can you worship existence within
others? You can become a part of the whole only if you have a respect for the divine that resides within you. In creating you, God has already shown that he loves you. By loving yourself, you will know that you are a medium for God. In choosing you to be a medium, he has already loved you and respected you.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.”
“Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.”
“Humanity has come and still exists in the name of love.”
“Humanity has declared war on herself, we see this battles taking place within the confines of our heart and our homes; the only way we can win is to love one another.”
Source: TREES BY THE RIVER: Wisdom from here and above
“Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.”
“Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.”
“Humanity has eyes that are sharp enough to see the poor who collect garbage from the dumps, but humanity does not have enough heart to help them!”
“Humanity has feared the dark since time immemorial, and yet humanity has never experienced the dark, because it wasn't until recently - the age of cunning hands and clever machines - that the dark had been anything more than a whispering legend, a rumor of a nightmare.”
Source: Into the Drowning Deep
“Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.”
“Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.”
“Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.”
“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
Source: Beartown
“Humanity has no more comprehensive and no more complicated task than that of bringing forth a culture of love for peace as a contrast to the cult of violence and war. There is no area of human existence—from politics to ethics, from primary school to high science, from art to religion—where the human spirit is not confronted with the universal idea of the renunciation of violence.”
“Humanity has no way to rise above death without the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and sin kills life.”
Source: Jesus And The Learned Jew
“Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Humanity has overcome the food chain, and having surpassed all other predators, has now turned to a strange form of cannibalism: humanity preys upon itself. We cull our own herd. We murder our own children. This is what we call “progress”.”
“Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.”
“Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.”
Source: What is Mind?
“Humanity has positioned itself that there are ONLY three likely scenarios. 1. TSC: Total System Collapse where everyone dies. Including the rich. 2. Mass Depopulation: The Rich Kill off 75% of the poor. 3. Technological Leapfrog: A New Technology Changes the System Resource Management.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“Humanity has sacrified so much on the altar of geometry, sacrificing eons untold to the mathematical aberration of the straight line, the perfect angle. Perhaps one day, they will see the error of their ways.
Perhaps one day, they will come.”
Source: In the Shadow of Spindrift House
“Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?”
“Humanity has the power of imagination, the quwwat al-khal, as does the Omniconscious Unicity. When the Omniconscious Unicity uses this power, worlds are created. When humanity uses this power, the Omniconscious Unicity is created. In our eye, the Omniconscious Unicity sees Its eye.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”
“Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.”
“Humanity has to start noticing that we are One. We are connected with the net of beings who are the life of this planet - and before we take them all down, we ought to see what we can do to preserve this unique and extraordinary family. That's what I think the wounded healer would do. We're all wounded in one way or another. The question is, can we heal?”
“Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.”
Source: In Times Like These
“Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.”
“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”
“Humanity, humbleness, kindness beyond our reach is a gift, go for it.”
“Humanity & Humility are all but forgotten by those at the top.”
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”
“Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.”
“Humanity inspires me, people inspire me, I've always been a people person, and I love people.”
“Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.”
“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.”
Source: Fearscape
“humanity is a cancer on the body of the world”
Source: Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies
“Humanity is a comic role.”
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“Humanity is a community of human beings.”
“Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.”
“Humanity is a costume the greater Self wears.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.”
“Humanity is a dewdrop on the great tree of the universe. During its brief life span, it absolutely cannot perceive the maturing of the great tree.”
Source: To Hold Up the Sky