Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Sarraute, Nathalie

Best Quotes about Humankind

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Smith, Adam

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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 stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Einstein, Albert

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

France, Anatole

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Terence

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Calvino, Italo

29.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Rogers, Will

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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'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

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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 a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Canetti, Elias