“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.” PeopleHumansImportantFactsHelpingHumanityHuman BeingsHelping OthersHelping Other People Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.” WantLongFactsRunningHumanityAnimalHuman NatureDisciplineRight NowGoodnessCapacitySeparationResistanceTemptationImpulseCivilizedLong RunsSelf ControlWillpowerCivilisationRestraining Author:Roy Baumeister
“We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.” WorldWantMindHas BeensFactsHumanityLosesEffortDevelopmentOrganizationSightRewardsIncludingExperimentsCooperationFoundersI Want YouBrotherlyComradeship Author:Jewel
“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.” ThinkingWorldHumansWellsCountryWholeFactsHumanityIndividualSpeakHuman BeingsQualityKnownEssenceSpreadConnectedWhole WorldOur CountryGenerosityIsolationBeing HumanUbuntuInterconnectednessYour Generosity Author:Desmond Tutu
“Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.” MenWantFactsHumanitySocialDifferencesFormerLatterMutualContemptPredictableSocial ScienceLooking DownPhilistines Author:Allan Bloom
“In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.” MenWayFactsHumanityIndividualSubjectsPhilosophicalConsideringWholenessAnthropologyInvestigators Book:On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity Source: On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity
“All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.” MenHumansFactsSufferingHumanityHuman BeingsBehindsLonelinessWallGalaxyMistChoke Author:Isaac Asimov
“Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.” MayFactsAmericaHumanityBeliefChanceCommonMissingTerribleCivilizationAncientDuesFormerFeaturesLegendsNeverthelessSiteAccustomedTemptedSimilarityStanleyMiss America Author:Frederick Soddy
“The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.” NeedsLongDoeHas BeensStatesFactsHumanityChurchCenturyHatredCatholicJewAggressiveCatholic ChurchProgrammesIndictment Author:Pat Condell
“Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.” MenMeanMatterFactsWisdomLife IsHumanityPoliticsProcessEconomyBrotherInvolvedDegreesNo Matter WhatHarmRecognitionMy BrotherLiberalismAgape Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!” SoulFactsReligionHumanityEvilChristianitySafetyAnchorsDominionDeliverance Author:Napoleon Bonaparte