Motivational Quotes

Humankind

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Socrates

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Smith, Adam

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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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.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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

Robert, Fulghum

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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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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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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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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.