Mankind Quotes
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 those who are yet unborn.
The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?
Actually, the mysteries of water are similar to those of the blood in the human body. In Nature, normal functions are fulfilled by water just as blood provides many important functions for mankind.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.