Quote: 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. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author
Quote: The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Author: Tennessee Williams 1914-1983, American Dramatist
Quote: 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. Author: Douglas Adams 1952-, British Science Fiction Writer
Quote: The proper study of mankind is woman. Author: Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918, American Historian
Quote: We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. Author: Konrad Adenauer 1876-1967, German Statesman
Quote: Man is an ape with possibilities. Author: Roy Chapman Andrews 1884-1960, American Adventurer, Administrator, Museum Promoter
Quote: 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. Author: Marcus Antonius c.83-30 BC, Roman Triumvir, Related to Julius Caesar
Quote: 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. Author: Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918, Italian-born French Poet, Critic
Quote: Either a beast or a god. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Man is by nature a political animal. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Author: Dave Barry American Humorist, Author
Quote: 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. Author: Jean Baudrillard French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. Author: R. M. Baumgardy
Quote: The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: 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. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: 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. Author: Kenneth Boulding
Quote: Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: 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. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. Author: Eileen Caddy American Spiritual Writer
Quote: The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Author: Italo Calvino 1923-1985, Cuban Writer, Essayist, Journalist
Quote: There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree. Author: Pablo Casals 1876-1973, Spanish Cellist, Conductor, Composer
Quote: It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. Author: Holden Caulfield
Quote: Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: 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 Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Author: Stephen R. Covey American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''
Quote: 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. Author: Aleister Crowley 1875-1947, British Occultist
Quote: Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink Author: E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings 1894-1962, American Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Cyrus H. K Curtis
Quote: [Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor
Quote: Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. Author: Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977, American Author, Critic
Quote: Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Rene Daumal 1908-1944, French Poet, Critic
Quote: The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: 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. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Author: Carl Van Doren 1885-1950, American Critic, Biographer
Quote: Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Author: Fyodor Dostoevski 1821-1881, Russian Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Ernst Fischer 1899-1972, Austrian Editor, Poet, Critic
Quote: As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. Author: Michel Foucault 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: 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. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. Author: James A. Froude 1818-1894, British Historian
Quote: 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. Author: James A. Froude 1818-1894, British Historian
Quote: We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. Author: Buckminster Fuller American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''
Quote: 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. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. Author: Andre Gide 1869-1951, French Author
Quote: Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Edith Hamilton 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator
Quote: On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. Author: Sir William Hamilton 1730-1803, Scottish Diplomat, Antiquary
Quote: Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Robert Heinlein 1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer
Quote: What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale. Author: Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
Quote: Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. Author: John Andrew Holmes
Quote: 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? Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. Author: Elizabeth Janeway 1913-, American Author, Critic
Quote: Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. Author: Johnson
Quote: I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Author: Immanuel Kant 1724-1804, German Philosopher
Quote: Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts. Author: Sir Arthur Kent
Quote: Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Quote: 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. Author: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse
Quote: There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. Author: Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author
Quote: The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous. Author: George Leonard
Quote: Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! Author: Doris Lessing 1919-, British Novelist
Quote: Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey. Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: 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. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher
Quote: Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. Author: Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman
Quote: In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. Author: Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993, American Judge
Quote: What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate. Author: Dr Edward Mayhew
Quote: One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Author: Margaret Mead 1901-1978, American Anthropologist
Quote: Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. Author: Herman Melville 1819-1891, American Author
Quote: 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. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: The history of mankind is the history of ideas. Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Quote: Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: After all there is but one race -- humanity. Author: George Moore 1852-1933, Irish Writer
Quote: We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office. Author: Desmond Morris 1928-, British Anthropologist
Quote: Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Author: Iris Murdoch 1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: I am a member of the rabble in good standing. Author: Westbrook Pegler
Quote: We are all cells in the same body of humanity. Author: Peace Pilgrim 1908-1981, American Peace Activist
Quote: Man is a being in search of meaning. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. Author: Turkish Proverb Sayings of Turkish Origin
Quote: The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. Author: Edgar Quinet 1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician
Quote: All people are a single nation. Author: Qur'an Holy Book
Quote: 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! Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer
Quote: Let us ask ourselves; ''What kind of people do we think we are?'' Author: Ronald Reagan 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor
Quote: 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! Author: W.J. Reichmann
Quote: In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. Author: Theodor Reik 1888-1969, Austrian Psychoanalyst
Quote: 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. Author: Tom Robbins American Author
Quote: To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ''What's it for?'' Author: Fulghum Robert American Author
Quote: It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human. Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor
Quote: An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Author: Ida P. Rolf 1896-1979, American Biochemist, Physical Therapist
Quote: Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: 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. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps. Author: Nathalie Sarraute 1902-, Russian Writer
Quote: Man is a useless passion. Author: Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980, French Writer, Philosopher
Quote: Mankind is made great or little by its own will. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. Author: Friedrich Schlegel 1772-1829, German Philosopher, Critic, Writer
Quote: I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. Author: Charles M. Schultz 1922-, American Cartoonist, Creator of ''Peanuts''
Quote: 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! Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: 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. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. Author: Adam Smith 1723-1790, Scottish Economist
Quote: Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another. Author: Adam Smith 1723-1790, Scottish Economist
Quote: Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. Author: Adam Smith 1723-1790, Scottish Economist
Quote: I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. Author: John Steinbeck 1902-1968, American Author
Quote: Man is a substance clad in shadows. Author: John Sterling American Sports Announcer
Quote: Every man has a sane spot somewhere. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. Author: Charles Sumner 1811-1874, American Statesman
Quote: The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. Author: Charles Sumner 1811-1874, American Statesman
Quote: 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. Author: Sir William Temple 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist
Quote: I am human and let nothing human be alien to me. Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight. Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. Author: Sojourner Truth 1797-1883, American Feminist, Anti-slavery Advocate
Quote: If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. We need to understand our environment and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of mind for wisdom. Author: J. Donald Walters American Author, Lecturer, Playwright
Quote: 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. Author: Alan W. Watts 1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author