“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
International Herald Tribune (21 February 1990)
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“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
“An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
“Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order.”
London: Pluto, 1996.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Powers and Prospects (1996)
A Divine Image, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
The Divine Image, st. 3
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity.”
"The Need for Ethical Culture" celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society, founded by Felix Adler (5 January 1951) (the full remarks can be found in Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein and Carl Seelig http://books.google.com/books?id=UppFAAAAYAAJ)
1950s
Context: I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a "matter-of-fact" habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. … The frightful dilemma of the political world situation has much to do with this sin of omission on the part of our civilization. Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity.