<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Humanity - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20009]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, an animal that makes bargains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, an animal that makes bargains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The so-called human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The so-called human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a man; nothing human is alien to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19992]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19980]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19983]]></link><description><![CDATA[man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19965]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19968]]></link><description><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19970</guid></item></channel></rss>