Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of prioritizing the common good over individual or group interests.
John Amos Comenius calls for unity among humanity by advocating for the collective welfare, urging individuals to set aside personal biases related to language, nationality, or religion. This message encourages a broader perspective that values human connection and compassion above divisive identities, fostering a sense of shared responsibility for the well-being of all.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might quote this to inspire others to act selflessly.
The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.
Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
faith without doubt is addiction
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.
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