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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.
If you�re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old� And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing the same man century after century.
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.
The Corrections
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Sexus
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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