#mankind

Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet — but it's also not something to totally disregard. ↗

— Dan Harmon

#brains #humankind #religion #religions #religion

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#been #force #great #human #human life

Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever. ↗

— Eric Hansen

#history-of-mankind #humor #orchids #death

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #magic #man #mankind #sanity

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#belong #enforcing #good #good manners #justified

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#call #does #get #mankind #our

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#manner #new #require #shall #substantially

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#century #damage #done #earth #history

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#buried #consists #deeply #fundamental #lies