Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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.

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

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

Holmes, John Andrew

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Sumner, Charles

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 nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Fuller, Buckminster

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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

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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

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Terence

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Robert, Fulghum

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Watts, Alan W.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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.

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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 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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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

Reichmann, W.J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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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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

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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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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

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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