Mankind Quotes

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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. — Charles Baudelaire
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover… — L. Frank Baum
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of… — Joseph Addison
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes… — Ludwig van Beethoven
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. — Max Beerbohm
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. — Max Beerbohm
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as… — Alfred Adler
Man knows much more than he understands. — Alfred Adler
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour… — Annie Besant
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. — Franz Boas
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights… — Andrea Bocelli
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The human race is governed by its imagination. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later… — Daniel J. Boorstin
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. — Elayne Boosler
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug

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