Humankind Quotes

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

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

"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."

"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."

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

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!"

"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?"

"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."

"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."

"Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them - these are the best guides for man."

"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."

"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."

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

"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."

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

"I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

"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."

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

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