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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
World
Human
Revelation
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Useful
Reason
Human
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
― Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
People
Looking
Human
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
― Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Mothers
Human
Swayed
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
― Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Human
Lives
Public
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
― Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Human
Mothers
Obliges
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
― J. M. Coetzee
Want
Speaking
Human
Cool
Sinners
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
― Hans Christian Andersen
Human
Contrary
Glittering
Rises
History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.
― Aldous Huxley
History
Human
Ignorance
Bumptiousness
Canonize
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Compassion
Comfort
Human
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
― Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Human
Compassion
Unhappy
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
― Dante Alighieri
Human
Race
Upward
Fall
Dante Alighieri
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Human
Existence
Alive
Finding
Perfect is boring. Human is beautiful. — Tyra Banks
Inspiration Quotes
Perfect
Human
Beautiful
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. — Henry James
Inspiration Quotes
Human
Important
Second
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ― Leo Tolstoy
Meaningful Quotes
Nothing
Highest
Human
Wisdom
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Inspirational Quotes Of The Day
Love
Human
Sake
I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Motivation
Believe
Communication
Motivation Quote
Intrinsic
Human
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
Motivational
Inspirational
Running
Hope
Human
Engine
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. — William James
Success Quotes
Discovery
Generation
Human
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