Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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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Best Quotes about Humankind

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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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

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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Terence

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Butler, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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

31.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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