“We are always human and we should never forget the burden of being only human”

“The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

“There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

“Analysis, when seen as limited and never final, helps force thequestion of human responsibility, human judgment, and the suffering thataccompanies the assumption of the burden they impose. It is our willingness to assume this burden of suffering that is the only salvation we have,in the end, against evil.”

“The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.”