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  • It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Pain Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Joy Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Organization Quotes , Humanity Quotes
  • All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. E. Waite Quotes , Law Quotes , Humanity Quotes