Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Humankind

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smith, Adam

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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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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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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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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 are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Doren, Carl Van

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Marshall, Thurgood

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Terence

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Murdoch, Iris

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