Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Caddy, Eileen

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Doren, Carl Van

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Terence

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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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

11.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Socrates

18.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

20.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Reagan, Ronald

29.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rolf, Ida P.

32.

Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

36.

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Johnson

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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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

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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

44.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

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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

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hoffer, Eric