#mankind

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#conscience #enjoyment #exercise #free #interest

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#human-nature #humankind #limit #personal-development #experience

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#common #cries #emotive #emphasis #first

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. ↗

— Herbert Read

#evolution #form #higher #i #individuation

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#been #certain #certain degree #coherence #degree

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it. ↗

— Kid Rock

#crack #did #dropped #every #i

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#area #being #believe #mankind #planet