Quotes tagged Humanity
5 quotes found
“The regular people, they are usually right, aren’t they? They know the ways of the world better because they are the world.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“What men find most endearing in other men are their tragic flaws. That is why alcoholics never run out of friends.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“He does not know why he lives but he lives, and he lives because he does not know why he must die. He will go on this way, doing his little things, enjoying the little victories, adopting morals invented by other people, secretly supporting the ideologies of third-rate men and, at dinner time, quoting the philosophies of the extraordinary whom people like him have never allowed to live in peace.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The birth of every human is nature’s blind shot at achieving something grander. It constantly fails but by producing billions of people nature is improving its chances of attaining a mysterious goal.”The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Technologies of communication that allow us to overcome the distances of space also allow us to neglect the common humanity we share with the people we now find inhabiting our world.”How to Think
