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Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.
Artists and poets are the raw nerve ends of humanity. By themselves they can do little to save humanity.Without them there would be little worth saving.
Martin Lutherwas enforced to awake all antiquityand to call former times to his succour to make a party against the present time, so that the ancient authors both in divinityand in humanity which had long time slept in libraries began generally to be read and revolved.
Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yetthey are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.
La passion est toute l'humanite . Sans elle, la religion, l'histoire, le roman, l'art seraient inutiles. Passion is all of humanity.Without it, religion, history, the novel and art would be useless.
Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.
I hate'Humanity'and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of 'Humanity'generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.
I am out of humanity's reach.
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.
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.
The great house of our humanity No longer stands.
There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
L'humanite estune entreprise surhumaine. Humanity isa superhuman undertaking.
I should have been glad to have humanity forget all about strayalcoholic drinksbut in the present stage of human progress, this vehicle of joy could not be generally suppressed by federal law.
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
A'great' butler can only be, surely, one who can point to hisyears of serviceand say that hehas applied histalents to serving a great gentlemanand through the latter, to serving humanity.
The command 'Thou shalt not kill'must be binding on the conscience of humanity if the terrible tragedy and destiny of Cain is not to be repeated.
Violence is a lie, for it goes against the truth of our faith, the truth of our humanity Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroysthevery fabric of society.On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence.
If the changes we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.
Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
Handle so, dass du die Menschheit, sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden andern, jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloÞ als Mittel brauchst. Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium.What a very feware acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
Humanitydoesnot passthrough phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind.
Thou, too, sail on,O Ship of State! Sail on,O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Herein may be seen noble chyvalrye, curtosye, humanyte , frendlynesse, hardynesse, love, frendshyp, cowardyse, murdre, hate, vertue, and synne.
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.
Les grands artistes sont ceux qui imposent a' l'humanite leur illusion particulie' re. Great artistsimposetheir particular illusiononhumanity.
The greatest of all the contributions of the Americanway of life to the salvation of humanity.
I am imbued with two deep impressions; the first, that science knows no country; the second, which seems to contradict the first, although it is really a direct consequence of itthat science is the highest personification of the nation. 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.
Le mensonge est essentiel a' l'humanite . Il y joue peut- e" tre un aussi grand ro" le que la recherche du plaisir, et d'ailleurs est commande par cette recherche. Lies are essential to humanity.They play perhaps asgreat a role as the pursuit of pleasure, and are indeed controlled by this pursuit.
Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.
Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible, and is something that no one with a spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obeya Government that is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.
From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilizationworks its miracles and civilized man isturned almost into a savage.
Be nice to whites. They need you to rediscover their humanity.
The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomthe freedom to exploitit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing often-times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
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