Humankind Quotes - Page 7

• I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.

  Andrew W.K.

  Reality, Thinking, Accomplishment

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Mind, Development

  "Una historia de la lectura". Libro de Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Thinking, Political

  "The Role of Documentation in Conceptual Art: : An Aesthetic Inquiry". Book by Robert C. Morgan, 1978.

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• In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

  Tanith Lee

  Fate, Survival, Now And Then

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• Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Sex, Technology, Legends

  "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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• Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Work, Animal, Savages

  Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books

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• A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

  Colleen Houck

  Wise, Pain, Men

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.477, Hachette UK

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• Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.

  Gao Xingjian

  Art, Philosophical, Issues

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• La especie humana no avanza necesariamente por etapas de progreso en progreso... la historia y la civilización no avanzan a la par. Desde el estancamiento de la Europa medieval hasta la decadencia y el caos de los últimos tiempos en el continente asiático, pasando por las catástrofes de las dos guerras mundiales del siglo XX, los métodos para matar a las personas se hicieron cada vez más sofisticados. El progreso científico y tecnológico no implica, desde luego, que la humanidad se vuelva por ello más civilizada.

  Gao Xingjian

  Guerra, Mudanza, Europa

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• La ciencia tiene la incómoda costumbre de apartar al ser humano del centro de la escena. En nuestras historias precientíficas, los seres humanos empezaron siendo el punto central de la Naturaleza, viviendo en una Tierra que era el centro del universo. A medida que se investigaban más a fondo los orígenes de la Tierra y de la humanidad, se hizo evidente que la Naturaleza tenía otros intereses además de las personas, y que la Tierra era menos central de lo que se esperaba. La humanidad no era más que una rama de la gran familia de la vida, y la Tierra es un planeta pequeño que orbita alrededor de un sol poco excepcional, bastante alejado en un brazo de una galaxia espiral común y corriente.

  Seth Lloyd

  Correr, Gente, Historias

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• A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

  Ridgely Torrence

  Strong, Men, Years

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Teaching, Islamic, Race

  Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan. Directorate of Films & Publications (2008). “Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996”

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• ...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to being that which can be chosen, yet each person must on his part choose. God is not mocked. Therefore the matter stands thus: If a person avoids choosing, this is the same as the presumption of choosing the world.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Honor, World

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• As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

  Charles Bolden

  Book, Long, Steps

  NASA Administrator Statement on Neil Armstrong's Death, www.nasa.gov. August 25, 2012.

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• The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

  Paul Hawken

  Philosophy, Creative, Promise

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• A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Exercise, People

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• True healing means drawing the circle of our being larger and becoming more inclusive, more capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not for the sick alone, but for all humankind.

  Richard Moss

  Healing, Mean, Circles

  "Healers on Healing". Book by Richard Carlson, ‎Benjamin Shield (p. 36), 1989.

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• Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Love Is, People, Important

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• Una de las mayores dignidades de la humanidad es que cada generación sucesiva se invierte en el bienestar de cada nueva generación.

  Fred Rogers

  Generations, Dignity, Welfare

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.85, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

  Sholem Asch

  God Love, Philanthropy, No Love

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• It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

  Paul Horowitz

  Discovery, Earth, Evolution

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• It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

  David Wolfe

  Trying, Firsts, Enlightening

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.24, North Atlantic Books

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• Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

  Morgan Freeman

  Hero, Men, Honor

  "Actors who played Nelson Mandela react to news of his death". www.foxnews.com. December 6, 2013.

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• School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Education, School, Order

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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