“The only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift—a more human face.”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“Love is humanity’s ultimate pursuit, most innate instinct save for survival itself, and most relentlessly researched, opined, romanticized and prized condition. It is the noun and the verb, the yin and the yang. It is the gods upon which we’ve built our churches, and the art which paints our progres…”— John Gorman, thoughtcatalog.com
“The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“...how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.”— Jamie Tworkowksi, amazon.com
“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them.”— John Desmond Bernal, amazon.com
“Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“...our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.”— Jamie Tworkowski, twloha.com
“I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life. This does not necessarily mean that he sacrifices his life for the other - but that he gives him of that which is alive in him; he gives him of his joy, of his interest, of his understanding…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a [woman], and the…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... just keeps on eating.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”— Brad Meltzer, bradmeltzer.com
“We are each so deliciously complex and messy; what better way to pay homage to these multiplicities than to feel, to express, and to carve out space to navigate as our purest self?”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com