Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Ideas, History

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131

• A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, May, Destruction

  "The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part I): The Friend".

• God is everywhere! the God who framed
  Mankind to be one, mighty family,
  Himself our Father, and the world our home.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  God, Father, Home

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.157

• The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Attachment, Discipline

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1: Lectures, 1795: On Politics and Religion”, p.46, Princeton University Press

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