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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
- Da Vinci, Leonardo
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Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Sumner, Charles

2.
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire,why wasn't it done the other way?
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Fuller, Buckminster

4.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Twain, Mark

5.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Casals, Pablo

6.
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

7.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Andrews, Roy Chapman

8.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Proverb, Turkish

9.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
Robert, Fulghum

10.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Mencken, H. L.

11.
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Rogers, Will

12.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Bacon, Francis

13.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Disraeli, Benjamin

14.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Kant, Immanuel

15.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Canetti, Elias

16.
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
Thurber, James

17.
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Holmes, John Andrew

19.
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Rolf, Ida P.

20.
Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
Daumal, Rene

21.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Pegler, Westbrook

22.
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Janeway, Elizabeth

23.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence

24.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Murdoch, Iris

25.
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Einstein, Albert

26.
Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
Blake, William

27.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Miller, Henry

28.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

29.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Foucault, Michel

30.
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
Aurelius, Marcus

31.
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Baumgardy, R. M.

32.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Hamilton, Edith

33.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
Baudrillard, Jean

35.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
Dahlberg, Edward

37.
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.
Kent, Sir Arthur

38.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato

39.
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Weil, Simone

40.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Caddy, Eileen

41.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Sterling, John

42.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

43.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Marshall, Thurgood

44.
A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Einstein, Albert

45.
If you think that every bad thing that has been done on the face of the earth has been done by man, you're right -- but so has every good thing.

46.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Reik, Theodor

47.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
Smith, Adam

48.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates

49.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Gide, Andre

50.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Shaw, George Bernard


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