Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Humankind

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Murdoch, Iris

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

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

Socrates

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

Bible

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

11.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

12.

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

Foucault, Michel

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

15.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

17.

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

18.

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

Donne, John

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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

21.

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

Gide, Andre

22.

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

Sumner, Charles

23.

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

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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

25.

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

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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

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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

28.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

30.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Mead, Margaret

34.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Smith, Adam

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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

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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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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald

41.

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

42.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

43.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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.

45.

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Rogers, Will

49.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Smith, Adam