Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

- Sumner, Charles

Best Quotes about Humankind

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Foucault, Michel

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Socrates

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

Gide, Andre

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sumner, Charles

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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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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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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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

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We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Morris, Desmond

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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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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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

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

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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

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rolf, Ida P.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Adam

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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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barry, Dave

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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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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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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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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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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