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Mankind Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
- The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo…
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,…
- To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
- The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low…
- Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of…
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams