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Humankind

In each generation the human mind in every man reverts to its starting-point; each new man is a primitive man. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am not a human being; I am a human becoming. – Author Unknown

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind. – Author Unknown

Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. – Mihai Eminescu, translated by Oana Platon

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. – Yugoslav Proverb

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley, Human Being

The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. – Bertrand Russell

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. – Turkish Proverb

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. – John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. – Author Unknown

There are too many people, and too few human beings. – Robert Zend