Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Johnson

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Curtis, Cyrus H. K

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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Barry, Dave

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Proverb, Turkish

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Socrates

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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

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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Froude, James A.

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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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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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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Mead, Margaret

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I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Terence

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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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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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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Twain, Mark

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Baudrillard, Jean

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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston