"So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other."
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"Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'"
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"Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius."
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"As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful."
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"Above all nations is humanity."
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"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."
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"Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens."
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"Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity."
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"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
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"The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
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"Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile."
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"We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity."
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"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
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"The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity."
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"Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts... by agreeing to this duty."
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"I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason. It's not just to make people happy and get people to dance and sing, to feel an escape. It's also to get people to listen and to bring important issues to the forefront."
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"Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure."
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"For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity."
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"It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment."
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
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