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Quote 3608
The good life must be lived in a good society, and is not fully possible otherwise.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3607
Men have sacrificed their lives to helping lepers in such a case, the love they felt cannot have had any element of aesthetic delight.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3587
The world is a unity, and the man who pretends to live independently is a conscious or unconscious parasite.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3550
In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3377
I cannot admit that they are living the good life.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3371
Love is the life out of which are fashioned all the natural feelings, every emotion of man.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3368
The only thing worth a man's care is the will of God, and that will is the same whether in this world or in the next.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3366
I am he whom you may see any afternoon sitting by himself and musing in D'Argenson's seat.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3362
My thoughts,—these are the wantons for me.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3355
He is one of a crowd, a taxpayer, an elector, an anonymity, but not a man.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3353
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions, such a man is a mere article of the world’s furniture.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3340
Beware the fury of a patient man!by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3339
Men are but children of a larger growth.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3336
There is no more gracious or perfect delight than when a whole people makes merry.by: HomerShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3334
Many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt.by: HomerShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3307
He is a true fugitive, that flies from reason, by which men are sociable.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 3305
Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3291
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3281
The Child is Father of the Man;Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3273
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3272
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3271
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3270
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3269
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3268
There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3261
Man is a Tool-using Animal.by: Thomas CarlyleShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3254
I am large, I contain multitudes.by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3253
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3252
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3247
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3243
The Gospel is a light in the world, which lighteneth mankind, and maketh children of God.by: Martin LutherShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3240
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 3239
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3237
To feel much for others and little for ourselves constitutes the perfection of human nature.by: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3236
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others.by: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3226
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?by: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3225
A great empire and little minds go ill together.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3223
It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3215
Thought constitutes the greatness of man.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3214
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3134
Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 3131
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 3094
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.Showing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 3053
Every generation needs regenerationShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 3020
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively badby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 3005
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2981
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hivesby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2967
Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of manShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2950
Music is the universal language of mankindShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2927
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2905
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guidedby: John LockeShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2892
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starveShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2825
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lendby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2795
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victimShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2772
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of womenby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2744
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of manby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2737
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finerby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2729
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2718
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbishby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on mankind
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizerShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2667
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its oppositeShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2666
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternityShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2658
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes furtherShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2649
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Showing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2630
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2629
Association with human beings lures one into self-observationby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2623
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a travelerby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2609
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the worldShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2600
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changeShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2597
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selectionShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2596
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existenceShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2590
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to itShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2589
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveriesShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2569
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily painsShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2508
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamondsby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2504
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2489
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2483
The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by themShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2480
“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writingShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2479
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few handsShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2472
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earthShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2440
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teachShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2432
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can doShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2417
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing elseby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2405
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationshipby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2398
All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common goodby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2390
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idolsby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2374
There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitudeShowing Quotes on mankind
Quote 2366
The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.Showing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2352
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of menShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2339
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to liveShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2324
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and moreShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2247
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its womenShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2237
Hunger makes a thief of any manShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2235
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.Showing Quotes on mankind
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always doneShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2185
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless manShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2160
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wondersShowing Quotes on mankind
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Quote 2153
The most important political office is that of the private citizenShowing Quotes on mankind
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The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized manShowing Quotes on mankind
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