“No human thing is of serious importance.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Humanity
Henry David Thoreau Cynical Quote
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” Continue reading
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Continue reading
Laurens Van Der Post on Humanity
“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.” Continue reading
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Future
“The future lies in the strength with which people can set their powers of creation against their impulses for destruction. Perhaps this is the unending frontier.” Continue reading
Edward Gibbon on History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.” Continue reading
Douglas Adams on Experience
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Continue reading
T. S. Eliot on Humanity
“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” Continue reading
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