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

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

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

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

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

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Reik, Theodor

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

10.

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

11.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?

Robert, Fulghum

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Twain, Mark

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

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

Socrates

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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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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 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.

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Terence

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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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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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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A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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