Mankind Quotes - Page 17

• Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Choices, Understanding

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• Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

  Alexander Pope

  Gratitude, Unwilling

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.57

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• The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

  Alexander Pope

  Wind, Sea, World

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.139, Delphi Classics

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• Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Sick, Drink

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 229, 2006.

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• The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, World, Creation

  John Quincy Adams (1850). “Letters by John Quincy Adams, on the Study of the Bible”, p.20

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• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inability, Rooms, Unhappiness

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• God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Promise, Matter, Comfort

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Would Be, Limits

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• Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

  Socrates

  Views, Offers

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• The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Genius, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

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• It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Conceited, Hysteria

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Class, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.24, Routledge

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• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

  Hesiod

  Eye, Design, Spy

  Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

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• What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

  John Berger

  Art, Cinema, Vagrants

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• I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Lying, Believe

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Perfection, Development, Symptoms

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• By and large books are mankind's best invention.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Invention

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• I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Pain, Thinking, Order

  "Change". Booklet by Katherine Hunt, issuu.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

  John Vanbrugh

  Women, Weakness, World

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1982). “The Provoked Wife”, p.114, Manchester University Press

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• We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Jobs, Compassion, Self

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• There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

  Northrop Frye

  Way, Language, Degrade

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.195, Dundurn

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• Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Hate, Technology, Hatred

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• Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Mean, Men, Use

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