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

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

2. "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

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

George Orwell

4. "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

5. "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

6. "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

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

Cyril Connolly, "Unquiet Grave"

Quotations about: Life and Death

8. "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

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

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Justice

10. "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

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

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

13. "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

14. "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

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

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Various

16. "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"

17. "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

18. "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"

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

André Gide

20. "Art is the signature of man."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Everlasting Man"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

23. "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

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

Lev Tolstoy

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Martin Luther King

Quotations about: Science and Technology

27. "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

28. "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

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

30. "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

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

Will Rogers

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

Sacha Guitry

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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

Carl Gustav Jung

34. "Man is a universe within himself."

Bob Marley

35. "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

36. "Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

37. "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for."

Martin Buber

38. "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

Bertrand Russell, "Unpopular Essays"

39. "Our true nationality is mankind."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Patriotism

40. "What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

41. "General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

42. "Politeness is the flower of humanity."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

43. "Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side."

Bob Marley

Quotations about: God and Religion

44. "People in your life will come and go like the ocean tides, but few will leave such an imprint on your soul that it can not be washed away."

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Quotations about: Memory

45. "Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: History and Nations

46. "It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

47. "People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine of Hippo

48. "No one is without Christianity [...] Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: God and Religion

49. "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill

Quotations about: Justice

50. "Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

Socrates

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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