As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity.
