~ Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself ~
~ We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. ~
~ Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. ~
~ Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~
~ A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~
~ If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' ~
~ From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. ~
~ After all, there is but one race: humanity ~
~ For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life. ~
~ Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society ~
~ The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man ~
~ A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth ~