Motivational Quotes

Humankind

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

- Mises, Ludwig Von

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

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

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

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

Gide, Andre

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.

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

Sumner, Charles

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Hamilton, Edith

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

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

10.

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

Holmes, John Andrew

12.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

14.

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

16.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Caddy, Eileen

22.

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

Williams, Tennessee

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

26.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Rolf, Ida P.

28.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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

Reagan, Ronald

39.

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

Sumner, Charles

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Man is an ape with possibilities.

Andrews, Roy Chapman

44.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

Temple, Sir William

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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.

46.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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.