Quotes about Humanity

Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.

War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.

No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.

His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

The convict was transfigured into Christ.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful. It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.