Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

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Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Hugo, Victor

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

Canetti, Elias

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.

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

Doren, Carl Van

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Smith, Adam

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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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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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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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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

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

Murdoch, Iris

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Socrates

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

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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

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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.

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Man is a useless passion.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Calvino, Italo

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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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

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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