While people will submit to suffering which may hit anyone, they will not so easily submit to suffering which is the result of the decision of authority. It may be bad to be just a cog in an impersonal machine; but it is infinitely worse if we can no...
If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then we would have no choice but to believe. We would lose our f...
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, an...
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
One of the dangers of the spiritual story is that it disassociates humans from reality. Relieving world hunger, crime and suffering are replaced with fantasies of other worlds, dimensions, gods or forces that will magically take care of humanities pl...
It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.
When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart, I cry then extend my hand to help with my heart.
As long as there are groupings, there will be disharmony and humanity will suffer. Grouping will be there always, but leaders have to be better to find the harmony.
Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandal...
In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced...
A man who is afraid of suffering suffers from fear itself.
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
I love the machines and I cannot allow them and the humans of Twinmortal to suffer.-Hanshin
Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
