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.
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.
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
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.
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.
