A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, desiring attainment for himself, helps others to attain.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Look at this wagon. Is it a wheel or a spoke? ... It is a composite and so is a man.

A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.