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| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. | | Titus Maccius Plautus | |
| Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters. | | Ogden Nash | |
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| That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case. | | Aristotle | |
| The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself | | Aristotle | |
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| The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals | | James Thurber | |
| The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them | | George Santayana | |
| The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. | | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr | | Abraham Maslow | |
| The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin | | Alfred Adler | |
| The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.- | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it | | James Matthew Barrie | |
| The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. | | William Blake | |
