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Human Race Quotes

Big thoughts on humanity's story.

These human race quotes swing between wonder and warning, calling poetry the mother-tongue of the human race while also naming physical extinction as a real possibility. Together they capture humanity's drive to explore, a theme tied closely to our Consciousness quotes.

Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

Quotes by Vernor Vinge

Makeup
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Nov 07, 2020

The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.

Quotes by Kip Thorne

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Quotes by Johann Georg Hamann

Nov 07, 2020

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Quotes by Doris Lessing

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness.

Quotes by Donovan

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Quotes by Don Marquis

Nov 07, 2020

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Quotes by David Deutsch

Nov 07, 2020

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Quotes by Dan Quayle

Member
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

Quotes by Alveda King

Other lines frame exploration and storytelling as part of our biological makeup, not just cultural habit. For more on humanity's deeper questions, see our Extinction and Everything quotes.

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