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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
Humankind Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humankind

1.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Murdoch, Iris

2.
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.

3.
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.

4.
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

5.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

6.
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
Barry, Dave

7.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Smith, Adam

8.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Gide, Andre

9.
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

10.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Steinbeck, John

11.
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

12.
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

13.
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.
Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

14.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Disraeli, Benjamin

15.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Lincoln, Abraham

16.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Pegler, Westbrook

17.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Landor, Walter Savage

18.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Fuller, Buckminster

19.
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
Pilgrim, Peace

20.
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.

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Sterling, John

24.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.
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

26.
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.

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.
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Baumgardy, R. M.

29.
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.

30.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
France, Anatole

31.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
Twain, Mark

32.
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

33.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Doren, Carl Van

34.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Canetti, Elias

35.
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

36.
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

37.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Foucault, Michel

38.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for?
Robert, Fulghum

39.
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
Smith, Adam

40.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Shaw, George Bernard

41.
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Mayhew, Dr Edward

42.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
Donne, John

44.
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

45.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Mead, Margaret

46.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Freud, Sigmund

47.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates

48.
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.

49.
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

50.
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


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