Nature of man Quotes · Page 103

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

— Oscar Isaac

“Humans are ever resilient, and their will to live surpasses everything else. Do not lose hope, Allison.”

— Julie Kagawa

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

— Juvenal

“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

— Dean Cavanagh

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

— Pope John Paul II

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

— Terence McKenna

Human Race is all over universe! And I am the first person to inform you. I am the most influential person of…

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the…

— Herbert A. Simon

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

— Thomas Steven Molnar

For humanity to flourish, we'll need to roll up our sleeves, with tools of creation in hand, and get to work. The…

— Bryan Johnson

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

— David Mitchell

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole… Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive…

— I. L. Peretz

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We…

— Dante Alighieri

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a…

— Isaac Asimov

“So we go around pigeonholing everything. We put cows in cowsheds, horses in stables, pigs in pigsties, and chickens in chicken coops.…

— Jostein Gaarder

“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle…

— Anonymous

“Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies,cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms-greed…

— Gordon Gekko

“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught…

— Nicholas Wade

If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a…

— Douglas Coupland

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow…

— Karl Marx

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the…

— Vasily Grossman

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

— Ernest Renan

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The eternal questof the individual human being is ti shatter his loneliness.

— Nix

“Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

— Antonio Porchia

“That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness and for the bulk of mankind happiness was better.”

— George Orwell

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

— Kailash Satyarthi

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

— William Godwin

“We all do things we shouldn't. That's what makes us human.”

— Chris Birdy

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

— Samuel Richardson

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

— Gary Zukav

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

— William S. Burroughs

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

— Isaiah Berlin