(3312 quotes found)
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
Douglas Adams
“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”
Emerson M. Pugh
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there”
Yasutani Roshi
“What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval”
Mark Twain
“To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player”
Albert Einstein
“We all boil at different degrees”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom”
Anatole France
