Quotes of Humankind - somelinesforyou

“ Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ”

- Bible

“ Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ Man is a being in search of meaning. ”

- Plato

“ Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this — one dog does not change a bone with another. ”

- Adam Smith

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

- Eric Hoffer

“ Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! ”

- Doris Lessing

“ 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. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. ”

- Sir William Hamilton

“ One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. ”

- Margaret Mead

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

- Arthur Keith

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

- Elizabeth Janeway

“ The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. ”

- Henry Miller

“ The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ 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. ”

- Cyrus H. K Curtis

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

- Nathalie Sarraute

“ Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ”

- James A. Froude

“ The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Konrad Adenauer

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

- Buckminster Fuller

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

- Carl Van Doren

“ I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ”

- Socrates

“ 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? ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Francis Bacon

“ 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. ”

- John Locke
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