Motivational Quotes

Humankind

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Humankind

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bacon, Francis

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Barry, Dave

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

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

Sumner, Charles

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Foucault, Michel

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

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

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

10.

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

12.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

Kent, Sir Arthur

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

Calvino, Italo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Twain, Mark

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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 a substance clad in shadows.

Sterling, John

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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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Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

Smith, Adam

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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 head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

Daumal, Rene

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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

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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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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.

30.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Pegler, Westbrook

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Antonius, Marcus

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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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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Adenauer, Konrad

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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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People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

37.

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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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 history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Mises, Ludwig Von

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

Smith, Adam

41.

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

Janeway, Elizabeth

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

Doren, Carl Van

43.

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

Baumgardy, R. M.

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Sarraute, Nathalie

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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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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

49.

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

Bible

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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