“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink”
“We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
“I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
“Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ''What's it for?''”
“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”
“Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.”
“There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.”
“[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.”
“Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
“Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.”
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
“Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.”
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”
“The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.”
“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”
“Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.”
“The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.”
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.”
“As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”
“Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.”
“The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.”
“It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
“That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.”