Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and… — Ann M. Dibb Copy Share Image
Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole purpose on this planet. If you’re wondering what… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment… — Ben Chifley Copy Share Image
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image