
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.”
Source: Essays In Criticism By Matthew Arnold
Often cited as by Auden without attribution, this quotation has been traced to John Foster Hall (1867-1945), an English comedian known as the Reverend Vivian Foster, Vicar of Mirth. Full history with sound recording http://audensociety.org/vivianfoster.html
Misattributed
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.”
Source: Essays In Criticism By Matthew Arnold
“Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views.”
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Žižek! (2005); as Žižek notes on p. 1 of Mapping Ideology (1994), the observation that it is easier to imagine the end of the earth than the end of capitalism was originally made by Fredric Jameson.
“The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
The Unsettling of America (1977), Chapter Seven : The Body and the Earth
“Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets hims apart
From every other creature
On earth.”
Das Göttliche (The Divine) (1783)