Probably all the books I’ve ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.Fred SaberhagenExplorationHumanityIdentity Share this
Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.Fridtjof NansenHumanityIdentityKnowledge Share this
If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!Mehmet Murat IldanDeceptionHumanityIdentity Share this
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.Mel BrooksComplexityHumanityIdentity Share this
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.W. Somerset MaughamCreativityHumanityIdentity Share this
The Greek sculptor – I don’t think he was very different from any of us.Michael TippettCreativityHumanityIdentity Share this
No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.Gaston LerouxDivinityHumanityIdentity Share this
But even so, we’re not devils, let alone gods. We’re human. We’re human!Hiromu ArakawaHumanityIdentityMorality Share this
Vampires are people too. They’ve got their own problems, they just drink blood.Heather BrewerHumanityIdentityStruggle Share this
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.Henri Frederic AmielHumanityIdentityIntelligence Share this
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.Henri Frederic AmielEqualityHumanityIdentity Share this
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.Gilbert K. ChestertonGodHumanityIdentity Share this
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.Gilbert K. ChestertonHumanityIdealismIdentity Share this
Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.Gilberto Hernandez GuerreroEmpathyHumanityIdentity Share this
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.Sylvia PlathEvolutionHumanityIdentity Share this
There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.Kohta HiranoHumanityIdentityWillpower Share this
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.Joseph Wood KrutchHumanityIdentity Share this
These Atlantikoinonia. They’re human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)Sherrilyn KenyonHumanityIdentity Share this
Man would be “otherwise.” That’s the essence of the specifically human.Antonio MachadoExistenceHumanityIdentity Share this
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.AristotleHumanityIdentityIsolation Share this
Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.Kamila ShamsieHumanityIdentityUnity Share this
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I’ll call it human.Mary BeardHumanityIdentityMotherhood Share this
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.Clarence ThomasHumanityIdentityRace Share this
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.Clive BarkerHumanityIdentityVulnerability Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity