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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

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.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Calvino, Italo

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

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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 is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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 made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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

Dante Alighieri

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Pope, Alexander

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Lincoln, Abraham