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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
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
Raleigh, Sir Walter

2.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Williams, Tennessee

3.
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

4.
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

5.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.
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

7.
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.

8.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
France, Anatole

9.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Doren, Carl Van

10.
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

11.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Schlegel, Friedrich

12.
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.
Walters, J. Donald

13.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Holmes, John Andrew

14.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Caddy, Eileen

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Kant, Immanuel

19.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Landor, Walter Savage

20.
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

21.
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Rolf, Ida P.

22.
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.

23.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato

24.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

25.
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

26.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Mead, Margaret

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Butler, Samuel

30.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Proverb, Turkish

31.
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Pilgrim, Peace

32.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Sumner, Charles

33.
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Rogers, Will

34.
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

35.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates

36.
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

37.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri

38.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Foucault, Michel

39.
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

40.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Johnson

41.
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

42.
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

43.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Einstein, Albert

44.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Steinbeck, John

45.
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

46.
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.

47.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Smith, Adam

48.
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

49.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
Sumner, Charles

50.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Sarraute, Nathalie


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