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is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. Francis Bacon

is a single act of will of which each human is merely an instance and aspect of that act.

Within the moral realm specifically, this quest for transcendence leads him to maintain that once we recognize each human as being merely an instance and aspect of the single act of Will that is humanity itself, we will appreciate that the difference between the tormentor and the tormented is illusory, and that in fact, the very same eye of humanity looks out from each and every person.

is a story of war. Long before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world... and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. Winston Churchill

is a term invoked by those who want to cheat.

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon's: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity... and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity. Carl Schmitt

is a useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion. To invoke and monopolize the term is to deny the enemy the quality of being human and makes him an outlaw of humanity, opening the door for the most extreme inhumanity.

is an ocean and one must not lose faith in it... if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

is crooked timber out of which no straight thing was ever made.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

is crucial: it lets the daylight of the infinite & eternal into the closed human situation.

crucial: it lets the daylight of the infinite & eternal into the closed human situation.

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