Evolution of Humanity Quotes

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

The history of mankind is his character.

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

Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

All things human change.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.