#humanit

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#always #among #courageous #enthusiastic #fellowship

In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions. ↗

— Philip Roth

#education #humanities #age

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ↗

— C.P. Snow

#freedom #humanity #individualism #obedience #rebellion

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belong #cultivate #cultivating #doing #doing good

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#around #awesome #been #bin #compass

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. ↗

— Os Guinness

#freedom #humanity #positive-freedom #truth #virtue

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#humanity #leads #line #straight #straight line

I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me watch it all the time. I've spent hours and hours not just on the sea but just watching wave after wave come in. If it's an image of anything, I think it's an image of our own unconscious, the unconscious of our own minds... or you can put it the other way around, and that is that we have a sea in us. After all, we are sea creatures that learnt to walk on the land, are we not? And perhaps one way or another we go back to it. Every night when we dream we go back into that kind of depths, and that kind of beauty and monstrosity and mystery. So really the sea is not a single image, it can really image almost anything that the human mind can discover. ↗

— William Golding

#humanity #mind #sea #unconscious #beauty

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artists #arts-and-humanities #gadfly #rebel