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What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe. Blaise Pascal Mankind 174
Man is the creature of circumstances. Robert Owen Mankind 126
The angel is free because of his knowledge the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle. Rumi mankind 124
The proper study of Mankind is Man. Alexander Pope Mankind 120
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Benjamin Disraeli Mankind 116
The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable. Bhagavad Gita Mankind 113
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity. Reinhold Niebuhr Mankind 102
Apalah yang bisa pasti dari perasaan manusia Seno Gumira Ajidarma Mankind 101
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence. Adrienne Rich Mankind 98
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. Mark Twain Mankind 91
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. Source Unknown Mankind 90
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. George Bernard Shaw Mankind 87
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager. William S. Burroughs Mankind 85
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. John Steinbeck Mankind 85
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. Eugene Delacroix Mankind 84
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Mankind 83
The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells. Source Unknown Mankind 79
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great. Alexander Pope Mankind 74
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. John Updike Mankind 73
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. Albert Camus Mankind 69
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Mankind 68
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. Ghose Aurobindo Mankind 66
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. Leonardo DaVinci Mankind 66
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. W. R. [William Ralph] Inge Mankind 62
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. Thomas Alva Edison Mankind 60
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. Henry Van Dyke Mankind 59
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. Aldous Huxley Mankind 58
Loving humanity means as much and as little as loving raindrops or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity Are you sure you arent treating yourself to easy selfcongratulation seeking approval making certain youre on the right side Julian Barnes Mankind 56
Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and a perfect manCommands all light, all influence, all fate.Nothing to him falls early, or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. John Fletcher Mankind 53
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. Marie Carmichael Stopes Mankind 52
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. Woody Allen Mankind 51
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace? Source Unknown Mankind 51
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thingafter theyve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked Richard Buckminster Fuller Mankind 48
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. Chungliang Al Huang Mankind 47
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone. Antoine De SaintExupery Mankind 47
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. Herman Wouk Mankind 46
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. St. Ignatius Loyola Mankind 46
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Max Beerbohm Mankind 45
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. Epictetus Mankind 45
... a total being who can do many different things - think, fight, remember, love, anticipate, copulate, sing, laugh, imagine. All the activities can be used for good ends, all can be abused and turned to evil ends. Robert McAfee Brown Mankind 45
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken Jackie Chan Mankind 42
If a man makes me keep my distance the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. Jonathan Swift Mankind 42
I am constantly amazed by mans inhumanity to man. Primo Levi Mankind 41
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. Elizabeth Gaskell Mankind 40
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. Michel de Montaigne Mankind 40
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend. Andre Gide Mankind 39
The Fourteenth Book is entitled What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth Given the Experience of the Past Million Years It doesnt take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it Nothing. Kurt Vonnegut Mankind 38
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. Roger Von Oech Mankind 38
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. Arthur Schopenhauer Mankind 37
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. Edmond de Goncourt Mankind 35

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