Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Barry, Dave

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Steinbeck, John

14.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

19.

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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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

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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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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Socrates

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

Gide, Andre

29.

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.

30.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

31.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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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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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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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

Lippmann, Walter

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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Terence