Carl Sagan Quotes, Greek Quotes, Humanity Quotes

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

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Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

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I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

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The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

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In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

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No religion is higher than humanity

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