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Mankind Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners…
- The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
- Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
- The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
- They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of…
- There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put…
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