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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Smith, Adam

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Terence

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Rolf, Ida P.