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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Humankind

[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
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.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone 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.
After all there is but one race -- humanity.
All people are a single nation.
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.
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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.
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.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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.
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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.
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.
Either a beast or a god.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
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.
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.
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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!
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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.
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
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.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
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!
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.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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
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.
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.
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.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
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.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Man is a useless passion.
Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
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.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
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.