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

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

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

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

France, Anatole

13.

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

Lessing, Doris

14.

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

Smith, Adam

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

19.

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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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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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.

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Steinbeck, John

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

28.

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

29.

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

Foucault, Michel

30.

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

Johnson

31.

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

Kant, Immanuel

32.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

33.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

34.

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

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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.

38.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

39.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Marshall, Thurgood

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

44.

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

Calvino, Italo

45.

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

Gide, Andre

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Sumner, Charles

49.

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

50.

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