Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Williams, Tennessee

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Calvino, Italo

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

10.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

11.

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.

12.

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

Sumner, Charles

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

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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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.

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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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rogers, Will

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

28.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

33.

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

Marshall, Thurgood

35.

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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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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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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

42.

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

Terence

48.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Smith, Adam