humankind

1.

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

2.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

- Hesse, Hermann

3.

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.

- Fischer, Ernst

4.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

- Quinet, Edgar

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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

- Bible

6.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

- Butler, Samuel

7.

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

8.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

- Sumner, Charles

9.

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

- Twain, Mark

10.

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

- Confucius

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I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

12.

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

- Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

13.

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

- Proverb, Turkish

14.

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

- Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

- Murdoch, Iris

16.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

- Churchill, Winston

17.

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

- Smith, Adam

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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

- Walters, J. Donald

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

- Ruskin, John

20.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

- Wilde, Oscar