J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly applied under conditions of peace and justice.

What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.

The worst of faces still is human.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I am just one human being.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.

The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.