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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
- Robert, Fulghum
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Twain, Mark

2.
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Mises, Ludwig Von

3.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
France, Anatole

7.
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

8.
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Hoffer, Eric

9.
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.
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

11.
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

12.
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

13.
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

14.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Andrews, Roy Chapman

15.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.
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

17.
After all there is but one race -- humanity.
Moore, George

18.
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

19.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

20.
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

21.
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

22.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Twain, Mark

23.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Kant, Immanuel

24.
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

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Bacon, Francis

28.
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

29.
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

30.
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

31.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Adenauer, Konrad

32.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

33.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Lincoln, Abraham

34.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Ruskin, John

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
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

38.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Shaw, George Bernard

39.
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
Bible

40.
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

41.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Einstein, Albert

42.
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Lessing, Doris

43.
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

44.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

45.
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

46.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Calvino, Italo

47.
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Pilgrim, Peace

48.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Proverb, Turkish

49.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Gide, Andre

50.
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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