Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience.
—Carl Jung
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
—Immanuel Kant
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
—Thomas Aquinas
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.
—Immanuel Kant
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.
—Immanuel Kant
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
—Charles Dickens
What the Apostle is concerned to deny is any intrusion of human merit into the work by which salvation is obtained.
—J. Gresham Machen
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made.
—Immanuel Kant
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.
—Julius Caesar
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
—Søren Kierkegaard
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
—Blaise Pascal
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
—Nikolai Gogol
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
—George Washington
[Christianity] transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story…
—J. Gresham Machen
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
—Thomas Edison
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is a mystery.
It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.
I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every night human beings lay aside the wrappings in which they have enveloped their skin..
We may add that when they go to sleep they carry out an entirely analogous undressing of their minds.
—Sigmund Freud
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
—Seneca
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
—Aristotle
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
—George Washington
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
—Immanuel Kant
An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
—Leonardo Da Vinci