Humanity Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
We are all more simply human than otherwise.
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) American psychiatrist
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!
Hamlet, Hamlet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
Man is a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135) Stoic philosopher
Man is a tool-making animal.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
The greatest animal in creation, the animal who cooks.
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) English playwright, humorist
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler (1835-1912) English author
Self-preservation, -nature’s first great law, All the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) English metaphysical poet
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. 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) British author
One definition of man is “an intelligence served by organs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
A being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Bible, Genesis
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch (b. 1919) Anglo-Irish author
He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller (b. 1915) American playwright
Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.
F. M. Colby (1865-1925) American editor, essayist
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
Desmond Morris (b. 1928) British anthropologist
Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah . . . didn’t miss the boat.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
