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A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh…
— Aldous Huxley
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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
— Hermann Hesse
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The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's…
— George Santayana
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As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.
— Joseph Addison
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Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a…
— John Donne
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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
— Saadi
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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
— Saul Bellow
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Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
— Marya Mannes
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
— Bertrand Russell
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
— Victor Hugo
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There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably…
— Max Beerbohm
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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my…
— George Washington
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Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
— Ronald Reagan
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.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There…
— Albert Einstein
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
— David Hume
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Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
— Adolf Hitler
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Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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