Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Bacon, Francis

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Lessing, Doris

11.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

12.

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

France, Anatole

13.

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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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

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

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

17.

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

Rolf, Ida P.

18.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

23.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

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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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

26.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Thurber, James

27.

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

Murdoch, Iris

28.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

29.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

30.

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.

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sumner, Charles

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Bible

45.

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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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

47.

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

Caddy, Eileen

49.

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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