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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
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
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.

2.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Pegler, Westbrook

3.
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.
Lippmann, Walter

4.
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

5.
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Lessing, Doris

6.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Kant, Immanuel

7.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
Twain, Mark

8.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Wilde, Oscar

9.
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Janeway, Elizabeth

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

11.
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

12.
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

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

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.
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

18.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Caddy, Eileen

19.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Smith, Adam

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
Smith, Adam

23.
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

24.
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Lewis, C. S.

25.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
Terence

26.
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.

27.
Man is a useless passion.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.
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

29.
Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
Reagan, Ronald

30.
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

31.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Butler, Samuel

32.
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

33.
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

34.
There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

35.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates

40.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

41.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Steinbeck, John

42.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Beecher, Henry Ward

43.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
Johnson

44.
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Baumgardy, R. M.

45.
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Hoffer, Eric

46.
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

47.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
Proverb, Turkish


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