Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?
Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?
Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent.
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
Health to the ocean means health for us.
Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.
Medical advances have created a fourth age of humankind intermediate between middle and old age, and this is the new prime of life,
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be remembered as one of the great things humankind has ever done,
Passing on to younger generations the memories and the will of those who suffered the bombing is the most important step for humankind to survive in the 21st century,
marked the beginning of the restoration of humankind back into God's lineage. ... They are the first couple to have the complete blessing of God, and to be able to bring forth children with no original sin.
Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.
The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
At the first gathering of the Elders' Circle in 1976, a statement was issued concerning the unique balance between Humankind and our Mother Earth.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
The testimony we've heard has been depressing, totally depressing. NASA has an image of overcoming challenges that are preventing humankind from going into space. It seems that NASA has been unable to overcome the challenge of good financial record-keeping.
the most important scientific effort that humankind has ever mounted.
The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Humankind above all is lazy.
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
The immediate temptation would have been to cancel our Forum in Egypt next month, but for the sake of a more peaceful future for humankind we have to show our solidarity by holding this meeting.
The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.
...humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them - these are the best guides for man.
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
How much further can we go? What are the final frontiers in this quest for travel? Will humankind only be satisfied when journeys into space become readily available and affordable?
Virtue is not always amiable.
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.