Beam Quote by Flann O'Brien

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments…

— James Jeans

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the…

— Hannah Arendt

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children,…

— Diane Setterfield

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

— Anonymous

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

— Marcus Garvey

Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities,…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far…

— Friedrich Schiller