Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human […]
Human - Humanity Quotes
Human life must be some form of mistake.
Thus do we poor humans attain our ends, striving through carnage and destruction to bring lasting peace and happiness upon the earth.
A scientific mentality capable of giving shape to a new realm of tangible, commonly shaped experience, would have to go beyond anything called by its name today. It would have to encompass mind, growth, language, history, and produce social concepts that have meaning for a humanity that inhabits the whole earth are reaches for the […]
Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear.
Man would be other wise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Ultimately, intelligence work comes down to dealing with humanity. After all the calls are intercepted and the missiles counted, the back accounts monitored and the nerve gas canisters located, we still need to look inside the minds, hearts and souls of other human beings. And unlike the mechanical and electronic things of which we are […]
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the human.
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
Those who insist that all things are knowable and that men and women act rationally have been on one side of the stadium of mankind for centuries, while the opposing bleachers have been filled by those who insist that even the light of reason casts dark shadows and that man’s nature is never fully knowable. […]
