Humanity Quotes - Page 17

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

We are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it? Perhaps soon humanity would simply flicker out, but Kirsten found this thought more peaceful than sad. So many species had appeared and later vanished from this earth; what was one more? How many people were even left now?

Humanity reaches to its full development with beauty of thoughts and deeds

The most beautiful of human things are born in the shadows and thrive there and are endangered by light

Within a moment of silence, all is known that needs to be known. Within a moment of breath, all of life surrounds you...from the stars, the sun, the trees and all of humanity. Within a moment of a smile, love embraces the universe and beyond. It only takes a moment of being open to the wisdom, the beauty and the Grace. ~jh

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way-in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel-really is lovely.

It's not perfection that makes you beautiful, It's your imperfections

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.

I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun - not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.

It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget.

You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.