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.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

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.

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

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.

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5]

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.

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.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men -- each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down wholesale.

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, "What's it for?"

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

What a piece of work is a 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!

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.