Homo Quotes

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

~ Friedrich Hölderlin

I am a man nothing human is alien to me.

~ Terence

Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.

~ Lord Chesterfield

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

~ Joseph Conrad

Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

~ George Orwell

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

~ Robert Browning

Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

~ Robert Burns

Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

~ Dean William R. Inge

Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

~ Aldous Huxley

The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

~ Hermann Hesse

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens.

~ Desmond Morris

We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

~ Vauvenargues

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

~ Immanuel Kant

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

~ Carl Van Doren

Men are cruel but man is kind.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

~ Konrad Lorenz

A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

~ Sara Jeannette Duncan

He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.

~ William Shakespeare

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

~ Westbrook Pegler

The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.

~ Kenneth Grahame

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

~ Benjamin Franklin

God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.

~ William Shakespeare

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.

~ Anonymous

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.

~ Henry George

Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

~ James Baldwin

People are too durable that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves they last too long.

~ Bertolt Brecht

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

~ William Faulkner

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

~ Henry Hewes