Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Robert, Fulghum

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Smith, Adam

11.

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

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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

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

18.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

19.

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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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

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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

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

Foucault, Michel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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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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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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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Socrates

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

48.

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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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

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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