#mankind

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#humanity #love #mankind #art

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary. ↗

— Iain Pears

#deeds #divinity #failure #future #goals

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mankind #supernatural #the-tolkien-reader #inspirational

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

#act #any #general #improvement #mankind

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! ↗

— Max Muller

#beautiful things #best #day #day to day #enjoy

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#beneficial #destroy #learning #mankind #never

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#armed #bloodshed #contradiction #danger #dialogue

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#avoid #contact #life #mankind #real

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ↗

— George Orwell

#evil #evolve #good #good and evil #heaven

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government. ↗

— Jan Tinbergen

#governments #longer #mankind #national #needed