Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Like the intricate mechanisms of the natural world, mankind's actions are not always immediately transparent in their effects. It is not the… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century,… — Alfred Smee Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This work of the Lord is indeed great and marvelous, but it moves forward essentially unnoticed by many of mankind's political, cultural,… — L. Whitney Clayton Copy Share Image
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You Cannot Always Wait For The Perfect Time, Sometimes You Must Dare To Jump. Life Is All About Risks And It Requires… — Don Kel Copy Share Image
Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and… — Arthur William Galston Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind… — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
