humanity – kevinwarstadt.com

Quote of the day 04/30/26

From Charlotte Brontë: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

From Oscar Wilde: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

From Friedrich Nietzsche: “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

From Simone de Beauvoir: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a human being.”

From Friedrich Nietzsche: “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

From Albert Schweitzer: “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being.”

From Albert Schweitzer: “Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

From William James: “Beyond the very extremes of fatigue and distress, men… break into a new realm of power and endurance.”

From William James: “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”