A Commonplace Book

Category: humanity...

  • what sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity
  • Humanity is the spiritual part of creation. (Chinese proverb)
  • Humanity, i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. (e.e. cummings)
  • One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual. (G. Buchnet)
  • It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. (O. Wilde)
  • Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. (F. Von Schlegel)
  • man is an orphan of uncertain beginnings and an indefinite ending
  • The thing that is you bears the still aching wounds of evolution in body and in brain. Your hands are made-over fins, your lungs come from a creature gasping in a swamp, your femur has been twisted upright. Your foot is a reworked climbing pad. You are a rag doll
  • resewn from the skins of extinct animals. (L. Eiseley)
  • DNA, the structure of the chemical alphabet out of which all that lives in constituted - a strange spiral ladder within the cell, the tiny building blocks constantly reshuffled in every mating
  • man being not only a perceptual but also a conceptual creature capable of observing, memorizing, and juxtapositioning images

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