Horace Mann Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.

— Vernon Johnson

“I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence…

— Stefan Zweig

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

— Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

— Horace Mann

Be ashamed to die until you have won a victory for mankind.

— Anonymous

“MANN – WAS – MANN –”

— Christopher J. Nolan

“I love humans, but am ashamed of humanity.”

— VD

I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context…

— Philip Kitcher

“My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present…

— Oscar Wilde

Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?"…

— Philip Kitcher

“Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one’s country, one’s friends, one’s family, even for the emperor.”

— N.T. Wright

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity.…

— Kurt Vonnegut