Creatures Quote by Anonymous

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

— Leo Tolstoy

Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the…

— Hildegard of Bingen

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

— Jean Toomer

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the…

— Anonymous

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

— Ernest Holmes

The essence of being human is to live for the sake of others.

— Senoraroy

I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most…

— Mark Rylance

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

— Jason Silva

“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention, must remain…

— Bertrand Russell

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to…

— Anonymous

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik