| Author |
Quotes |
| Adam Smith | Man, an animal that makes bargains. |
| Albert Einstein | My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. |
| Albert Einstein | We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. |
| Alphonse De Lamartine | Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. |
| Aristotle | Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. |
| Bible | Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. |
| Blaise Pascal | man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. |
| Charles Sumner | The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. |
| Denis Diderot | It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. |
| Desmond Morris | There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens. |
| Douglas Adams | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| Ernest Renan | Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. |
| Euripides | Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. |
| Finley Peter Dunne | It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. |
| Friedrich Holderlin | I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? |
| George Santayana | Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. |
| Henry Allen | It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | 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 ripen at the top. |
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