#humanit

He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir. Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile. - Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#commerce #failure #humanity #me #often

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance ↗

— Helen Rowland

#mistakes-humanity #life

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#acquiring #humanity #reasons #right #wrong

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #despair #human #human beings #humanity

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #been #brotherhood #deep #feelings

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story. ↗

— Dan McCurrigan

#courage #death #emotional #hero #humanity

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#humanity #moves #progress