Motivational Quotes

Humankind

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

- Adenauer, Konrad

Best Quotes about Humankind

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.

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.

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

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill, Winston

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Holmes, John Andrew

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Johnson

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

Rolf, Ida P.

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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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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Adenauer, Konrad

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

Doren, Carl Van

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

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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

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.)