Humankind Quotes
73 quotations about Humankind
The proper study of mankind is woman.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Either a beast or a god.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
Authors on Humankind
Henry Brooks Adams
Konrad Adenauer
Roy Chapman Andrews
Aristotle
Francis Bacon
R. M. Baumgardy
Henry Ward Beecher
Bible
Eileen Caddy
Italo Calvino
Elias Canetti
Thomas Carlyle
Miguel De Cervantes
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
Dante Alighieri
Carl Van Doren
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson