Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

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.

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

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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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

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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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Caulfield, Holden

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Terence

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

Smith, Adam

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

Smith, Adam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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