Jesse Kellerman Quotes

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

As humans become civilized, the survival rate of the lazy, botched and dim-witted grow in inverse proportion to the productive segment since nature can no longer remove them from the species.

As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.