Best Mankind Thoughts
3075 Mankind quotes by 1527 unique authors
-
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
— Antonio Machado
-
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with…
— Ray Manzarek
-
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to…
— John Stuart Mill
-
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
— John Wilmot
-
Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
— Bertrand Russell
-
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
— Hannah More
-
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
-
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
— Alexander Pope
-
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
— Plotinus
-
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
— John F. Kennedy
-
The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and…
— Max Lerner
-
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
— Robert Kennedy
-
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
-
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the…
— W. S. Gilbert
-
Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
— Michel de Montaigne
-
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
— Anatole France
More Ways to Read Mankind Quotes
Who Wrote These Mankind Quotes
1,527 authors contributed a total of 3,075 Mankind Quotes, led by these top contributors: