Mankind Quotes

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity of arithmetic,” through showing that even the methods, which we now take most for granted, were not given to us from on high, but were actually the result of centuries of scientific efforts on the part of our predecessors. p. 269

~ G. Arnell Williams

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

~ Andrew R. George

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

~ Edmund Burke

If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do somethingtangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worthwhile, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

~ Christian D. Larson

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

~ Sigmund Freud

Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.

~ D'andre Lampkin

For such is the noble nature of man, that his heart will never wholly lose itself in one single passion or idol, or, as people call it apologetically, one idea. On it goes from one devotion to the next, not because it is ashamed of its first love, but because it must be on fire perpetually. To fall for Reason, as our grandfathers did, is but one Fall of Man among his many passionate attempts to find the apples of knowledge and eternal life, both in one. When a nation, or individual, declines the experiences that present themselves to passionate hearts only, they are automatically turned out from the realm of history. The heart of man either falls in love with somebody or something, or it falls ill. It can never go unoccupied. And the great question for mankind Is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever an old love or fear has lost its hold.

~ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.

~ Christopher Hawke

It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?

~ Marcel Theroux

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

~ Ellsworth Huntington

The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishinev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.

~ John E. Remsburg

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother

~ Gyan Nagpal

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

~ Molière

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

~ Terry Pratchett

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

~ Alexandre Dumas

There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself the West. That idea, to my mind, met its materialist apotheosis in Berlin at the time of the

~ Iain M. Banks

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

~ Alexander Pope

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...

~ Jasper Fforde

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

~ Christopher Dutton

Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.

~ Scott Morse

What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.

~ Kristen Callihan

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

~ A.w. Tozer

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

~ Will Schwalbe

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

~ Robin Hobb

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

~ Alain De Botton

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

~ John Geddes

Greed is like a dark side of every man, and you could not see it from the appearance of a man, but in the inside the greedy beast already dominating you.

~ Steven Eric Chen

Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back.

~ Jean-Christophe Valtat

The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other.R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

~ Stephanie Kwolek

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

~ Robert Dale Owen

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

~ John F. Kennedy

What is a hero without love for mankind.

~ Doris Lessing

All mankind love a lover.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

~ Herbert Simon

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

~ Thomas Paine