Quotes
Quotes about Man
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.
Humanity is the sin of God.
man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".
Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
The so-called human race.
