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

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

2. "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

3. "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"

4. "Our true nationality is mankind."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Patriotism

5. "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

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

7. "Politeness is the flower of humanity."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

8. "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

9. "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."

Anon.

Quotations about: Memory

10. "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

11. "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

12. "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

13. "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

14. "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

15. "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

16. "God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

Martin Buber

Quotations about: God and Religion

17. "I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Good and Evil

18. "A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

19. "Fear makes us feel our humanity."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Vivian Grey"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

20. "The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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21. "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

22. "Men do no great things, only small things with great love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: Love

23. "The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage."

John Galsworthy

24. "I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: God and Religion

25. "We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

26. "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Margaret Mead

27. "Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and The Sea"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

28. "The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

William Faulkner

29. "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Science and Technology

30. "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows anybody."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

31. "Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Vivian Grey"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

32. "What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium."

Simone Weil, "Human Personality"

33. "What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

34. "Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity."

Arthur Schopenhauer

35. "The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

36. "More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

37. "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the Universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. "

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

38. "We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

Martin Luther King

39. "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

George Eliot, "Adam Bede"

40. "There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: History and Nations

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