Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

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

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

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

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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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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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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

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

Socrates

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Smith, Adam

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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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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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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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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Gide, Andre

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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 is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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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