Top 22 Human Insignificance Quotes
#1. There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.
Gabriel Chevallier
#2. Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
J. Oswald Sanders
#3. I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.
Thomas Hardy
#4. Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#5. And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.
Carl Sagan
#6. If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
James P. Gorman
#7. Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
George S. Patton
#8. Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
Martin Cruz Smith
#9. I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#11. Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.
Octavia E. Butler
#13. I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
Joan Jett
#14. What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.
Aravind Adiga
#15. Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of the human. It becomes part of our story. It is redeemed.
Gary Greenberg
#16. Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
Igor Sikorsky
#17. If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]
William Hazlitt
#18. Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
Roz Savage
#19. Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
Sebastian Junger
#20. I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.
Dawn Angelique
#21. When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
Rollo May
#22. Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
