Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Carl Sagan
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
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Louise Erdrich
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
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Johnny Depp
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus
More Quotes By Martin Buber
The world is not made of bread and honey…nor of the sweet flesh of girls. This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and...
Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?
Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the sea. It is all a matter of the wheel coming full-circle. For the sophisticated system of mental reactions to which we finally give...
We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!
We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!