#humanity

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#begins #humanity #man #only #self-interest

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#box #broadcasting #carpet #grass #humanity

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#dickens #had #humanity #me #never

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even after they go... they're still here. They never really went anywhere. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humanity #inspirational-love #inspirational-relationships #the-human-experience #the-unforgotten-ones

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#counted #humanity #only #slow #strides

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#essence #humanity #individual #into #love

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces. ↗

— Robert Cailliau

#faces #great #humanity #humankind #many

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. ↗

— Voltaire

#each #error #first #first law #folly