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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on--while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

Arthur Balfour

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the me

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and de

John Fletcher

Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Sigmund Freud

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perh

Walter Lippmann

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something mor

William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!--and yet, to me, wh

Michel de Montaigne

???Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.???

Thornton Wilder

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If doctors ever tell you that you've 'flipped out,' don't believe them, and just keep on doing what you were doing, because something tells me 'the Man' is behind this.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Francis Bacon

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and w

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Franklin P. Adams

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

Joseph Baretti

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Sophocles

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Fredric Brown

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

Thomas Jefferson

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Marquis de Sade

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 45.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Blaise Pascal

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

John Anthony Ciardi

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Mark Beltaire

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Igor Sikorsky

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 1327.

'T is true we've money, th' only power That all mankind falls down before.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 1.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Samuel Adams

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Alfred North Whitehead

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

Ted Simon

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.

CRABBE: _The Library,_ Line 69.

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind!

Albert Einstein

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Ronald Reagan

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

'Pants Man' To Expand At The Rear

'big macho man'... --Mulder, mocking Scully's anger at him

Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

"He's going for the `Quiet Man' movie fight record!" Crow

"It's a cookbook! 'To Serve Man' is a COOK BOOK!"

"This is our new song, `Plastic Man'!" -- Dr. Forrester

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects re

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." JFK

Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Apathy will be the downfall of mankind, But Who Cares?

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Beer and women: Two of God's best gifts to mankind.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

"It was the dawn of the 3d age of mankind, the year the great war came

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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

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

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity.

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.