Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

Barry, Dave

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

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

Twain, Mark

[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Adam

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Foucault, Michel

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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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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 we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Sumner, Charles

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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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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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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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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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.

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Terence