No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul an...d become richer in their humaneness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is an organism with a wonderful and extraordinary past. He is distinguished from the other animals by virtue of the fact that ...he has elaborated what I have termed extensions of his organism. By developing his extensions, man has been able to improve or specialize various functions. The computer is an extension of part of the brain, the telephone extends the voice, the wheel extends the legs and feet. Language extends experience in time and space while writing extends language. Man has elaborated his extensions to such a degree that we are apt to forget that his humaneness is rooted in his animal nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humaneness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other i...nstitution that I have ever known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Make love, not war," was not just a protest against the indifference and lack of humaneness in Vietnam; it was also a positive st...atement that love between parent and child, teacher and pupil, fiancé and fiancée, and husband and wife is an activity we should try to pursue in the house when work is not necessary. It is the one real source of truth, beauty, and salvation in a community where deceit, corruption, and impersonality seem to be rampant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing but a w...eakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. ...Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »