#mankind

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. ↗

— David R. Brower

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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I love mankind. And by mankind I mean women. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #love #mankind #age

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

#creativity #mankind #art