Mankind Quotes - Page 8

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

Unsere Fähigkeit zur Verantwortung ist [...] nicht etwas, das durch Philosophen, Politiker oder Geistliche quasi von außen in unser Leben hineingebracht würde, sie gehört vielmehr zum Grundbestand des Humanum. Wir verlieren uns selbst, wenn wir diesem Prinzip nicht zu folgen vermögen.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

Life is amazing gift from God to mankind.

Life on earth is a transition.
Death is final rest of every man.
What legacy do you wish to live?

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.

Quanto mais gosto da humanidade em geral, menos aprecio as pessoas em particular, como indivíduos.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

All men have a soul.

Of all God’s creatures, only man kills with malice. Only man kills out of vengeance.

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world-the brains of men.