Humankind

(70 votes)   Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(27 votes)   What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Dr Edward Mayhew

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(267 votes)   Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(265 votes)   We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(247 votes)   After all there is but one race -- humanity.

George Moore
1852-1933, Irish Writer

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(228 votes)   Either a beast or a god.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(223 votes)   Man is an ape with possibilities.

Roy Chapman Andrews
1884-1960, American Adventurer, Administrator, Museum Promoter

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(223 votes)   The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(213 votes)   A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(192 votes)   Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Marcus Antonius
c.83-30 BC, Roman Triumvir, Related to Julius Caesar

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(179 votes)   Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(177 votes)   Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(159 votes)   We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Konrad Adenauer
1876-1967, German Statesman

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(156 votes)   Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(130 votes)   The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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