When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
—William Temple (1881–1944) English Theologian, Archbishop
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
—Margaret Mead (1901–78) American Anthropologist, Social Psychologist
I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
—Lawrence G. Lovasik
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
If we had no failings ourselves we should not take so much pleasure in finding out those of others.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Man is by nature a political animal.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Notice I did not say what people can do—what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.
—Max De Pree (1924–2017) American Businessman
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
—Teresa of Avila (1515–82) Spanish Carmelite Nun, Mystic
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
—Bernard Williams (1929–2003) English Philosopher
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man.—Nothing is holier than this high form.—We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.
—Novalis (1772–1801) German Romantic Poet, Novelist
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
People throughout the world may look different or have a different religion, education, or position, but they are all the same. They are the people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Philosopher
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
—Eileen Caddy (1917–2006) British Spiritual Teacher
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that everyone of those darkly clustered houses encloses it’s own secret that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of it’s imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual – namely to You.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist
All people are a single nation.
—The Holy Quran Sacred Scripture of Islam
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