Nature of man Quotes · Page 186

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

— H. L. Mencken

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A deity’s purpose was to help humans. It was hardwired into their DNA from day one. Now he had to help.”

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

— John Templeton

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Needs pain and time to crystallized a bravery in the soul of human”

— Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

— Ryan Lindley

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

— James Boswell

Oh Lord, MAY ALL OF MANKIND BE HAPPY; MAY ALL OF MANKIND BE HEALTHY; MAY ALL OF EXPERIENCE PROSPERITY; MAY NONE (IN…

— Anonymous

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and…

— William Gibson

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed…

— Christopher Hitchens

Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe…

— Corliss Lamont

“It is greatly understated to compare humans to an absorbent sponge, a glowing fuse; they are each an innumerable harmony, a living…

— Johann Herder

The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of…

— Stephen L. Richards

“More than ever, the human world needs to find ways to build love, understanding, and peace, individually and on a global scale.”

— Rick Hanson

“Ben Says: We can only help better humanity if we better ourselves first. Education, diligence, passion, charity~helping all we can, when we…

— Timothy Pina

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith.…

— Jeff Miller

Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are…

— Sri Chinmoy

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has…

— Pope Leo XIII

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad…

— David Gemmell

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and…

— Peter Singer

“For not the revelation of God, but the expounders of that revelation, are responsible for the diversities of Christendom: the fault rests…

— G.H. Pember

But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch.…

— Richelle Mead

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

— Horace Mann

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

— Rick Yancey

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.

— Ma Yansong

Humans yearn for bright lights, fame and approval. Ignoring the risk of blindness and death of ones respect.

— Anonymous

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

— Aberjhani

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

“…life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.”

— Holly Lynn Payne

Its nature of man Deceive themselves and understand others is censurable,

— Mak_786

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

— Carl Sagan

“Reality is nothing more than a front we humans put up to try and organize our lives into.”

— Miranda Olsen

“trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.”

— Victor Hugo

“the question of what humanity is to be is going to be decided in the next sixty years.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

— Isaac Asimov