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"We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained."
"To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all."
"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
"No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated."
"We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
"Life is too short to waste."
"Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence."
"God save us from people who mean well."
"Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings."
"Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle."
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."
"If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity."
"As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity."
"Combine science and humanities."
"No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character."
"It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity."
"As a rule it is circumstances that make men."
"If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to."
"Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning."
