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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
- Sumner, Charles
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Marshall, Thurgood

2.
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.

3.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Caddy, Eileen

4.
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

5.
Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Johnson

9.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Rogers, Will

11.
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

12.
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

13.
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

14.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Foucault, Michel

15.
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

16.
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.

17.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Einstein, Albert

18.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Murdoch, Iris

19.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Sumner, Charles

20.
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

21.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Sterling, John

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Cervantes, Miguel De

25.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Janeway, Elizabeth

27.
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

28.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
Robert, Fulghum

29.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
France, Anatole

30.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Doren, Carl Van

31.
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.

32.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Schlegel, Friedrich

33.
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.

34.
Man is a useless passion.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.
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

36.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence

37.
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.

38.
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

39.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Sumner, Charles

40.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Mencken, H. L.

41.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

42.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Shaw, George Bernard

43.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Gide, Andre

44.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.
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

46.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Lincoln, Abraham

47.
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.

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Nietzsche, Friedrich


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