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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rolf, Ida P.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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, 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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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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

16.

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Twain, Mark

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Bible

26.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

30.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook