Motivational Quotes

Humankind

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

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Rolf, Ida P.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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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

11.

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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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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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

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Adam

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

Bible

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Sumner, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Moore, George

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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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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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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?

Reagan, Ronald