Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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.

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.)

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

Socrates

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Robert, Fulghum

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

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

17.

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

Sumner, Charles

18.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

20.

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

21.

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

Sumner, Charles

22.

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

Dante Alighieri

23.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Steinbeck, John

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

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.

32.

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

Johnson

33.

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

Barry, Dave

34.

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

Reagan, Ronald

35.

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

Butler, Samuel

36.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

39.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Calvino, Italo

48.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

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.

50.

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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