O weariness of men who turn from God
To the grandeur of your mind and the glory of your action,
To arts and inventions and daring enterprises,
To schemes of human greatness thoroughly discredited ...
Plotting of happiness and flinging empty bottles,
Turning from your vacancy to fevered enthusiasm
For nation or race or what you call humanity
T.S. Eliot, Choruses from 'The Rock'
It is easier to love humanity as a whole
than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer