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1. "Man is a luxury loving animal."

Eric Hoffer

2. "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest."

Eric Hoffer, "Passionate State of Mind"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

3. "If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce."

Anita Bryant

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

4. "There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens."

Desmond Morris, "The Naked Ape"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

5. "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Egoism

6. "The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."

Art Linkletter

Quotations about: Youth and Age

7. "In violence, we forget who we are."

Mary McCarthy, "On the Contrary"

Quotations about: Justice

8. "The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."

Sir William Osler

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

9. "Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other."

Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables"

10. "Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience."

Paul Boese

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

11. "A man is truly ethical only when [...] he tears no leaf from a tree, plucks no flower, and takes care to crush no insects."

Albert Schweitzer, "Philosophy of Civilization"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

12. "Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

13. "A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

14. "Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that one of you is enough."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. "We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."

Tennessee Williams, "Camino Real"

16. "To be adult is to be alone."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

17. "My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think [...] and I can't prevent myself from thinking."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

Quotations about: Various

18. "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

George Orwell

19. "We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven."

Albert Camus, "The Fall"

Quotations about: Egoism

20. "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world."

Henry Brooks Adams

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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21. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Martin Luther King, "Strength to Love"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

22. "We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self."

Cyril Connolly, "Unquiet Grave"

Quotations about: Life and Death

23. "For, I ask, what is man in Nature? A cypher compared with the Infinite, an All compared with Nothing, a mean between nothing and all."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

24. "It's not a color of skin that should separate people, but a thickness."

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Justice

25. "This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

26. "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

27. "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

28. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Good and Evil

29. "Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

30. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Various

31. "It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

32. "Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Happiness

33. "Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. [...] As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters"

34. "Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

André Gide

35. "Art is the signature of man."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Everlasting Man"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

36. "There is no hope of joy except in human relations."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

37. "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

38. "Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."

Elias Canetti, "The Human Province"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

39. "God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him."

Lev Tolstoy

Quotations about: God and Religion

40. "It is easier to know men than to know a man."

François de La Rochefoucauld

41. "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

Martin Luther King

Quotations about: Science and Technology

42. "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

43. "The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say."

Khalil Gibran

44. "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

45. "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking [...] the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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

Will Rogers

47. "The better I know men... the more I like dogs!"

Sacha Guitry

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

48. "We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself."

Carl Gustav Jung

49. "Man is a universe within himself."

Bob Marley

50. "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Henry Miller

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

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