Quotes on “Humanity” 17 Best Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status in English.

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

 

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