Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

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

Mead, Margaret

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

The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

Leonard, George

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

Johnson

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

Holmes, John Andrew

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

France, Anatole

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Smith, Adam

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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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Smith, Adam

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

18.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Twain, Mark

27.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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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.

36.

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

Socrates

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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

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.