Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
~ Francis Bacon

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
~ Douglas Adams

The proper study of mankind is woman.
~ Henry Brooks Adams

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
~ Konrad Adenauer

Man is an ape with possibilities.
~ Roy Chapman Andrews

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

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire

Either a beast or a god.
~ Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.
~ Aristotle

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

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
~ Dave Barry

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
~ Jean Baudrillard

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
~ R. M. Baumgardy

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
~ Bible

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

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.
~ Kenneth Boulding

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
~ Samuel Butler

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
~ Lord Byron

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
~ Eileen Caddy