Motivational Quotes

Humankind

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

- Barry, Dave

Best Quotes about Humankind

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.

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

Mead, Margaret

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Terence

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Doren, Carl Van

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

Smith, Adam

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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

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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

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

Socrates

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Lewis, C. S.

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Kant, Immanuel

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What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Mayhew, Dr Edward

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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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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

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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

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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Robert, Fulghum

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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