Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Rolf, Ida P.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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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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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

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Reichmann, W.J.

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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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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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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

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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