Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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

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.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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

Foucault, Michel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Calvino, Italo

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

12.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Canetti, Elias

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

14.

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

Robert, Fulghum

15.

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

Barry, Dave

16.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Terence

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Twain, Mark

20.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

21.

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

Bible

22.

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.

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Proverb, Turkish

25.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

26.

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

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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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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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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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.

32.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Crowley, Aleister

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Mencken, H. L.

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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston