Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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.

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Smith, Adam

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

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.

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

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Rogers, Will

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Socrates

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

Johnson

19.

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

Foucault, Michel

20.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

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Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Baumgardy, R. M.

30.

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

Gide, Andre

31.

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

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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

33.

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

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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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 human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Calvino, Italo

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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

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Sarraute, Nathalie

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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