Mankind Quotes - Page 18

• Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Average, Evil, Affliction

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• Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Moving, Civilization, People

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Loser, Flaws

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

  William Gifford

  Mind, Desire, Shade

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• Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Civilization, Feelings

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• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

  George Saville

  Men, Knowing, Old Man

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• There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Art, Philosophy, Psychology

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• It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient, sallow, and that this contribution they must have commenced to make before they can hope to understand the spirit that informs all great works and inspires all noble living.

  Lawren Harris

  Unique, People, Giving

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• My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Sublime, Reason

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• The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Light, Views

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Forever, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Grieving, Atoms, Unnecessary

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• The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Humble, Angel, Reality

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• I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Humanity, Way

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.187, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Struggle, Journey, Soul

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• The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Doubt, Quality

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• For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Past, Links

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Maturity, Thinking

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

  Archie Carr

  Earth, Environment, Wild Things

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• With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to himself and all mankind.

  Dharma Mittra

  Attitude, Self, Practice

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• It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.

  Dharma Mittra

  Encouragement, Attitude, Yoga

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• Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

  Rachel Carson

  Our World, Yesterday, Drug

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.

  Ernest Klein

  Dream, Spiritual, Real

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• To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

  Ernest Klein

  Kind Words, Knows

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• Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

  Marcus Garvey

  Believe, Justice, Age

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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