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• I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Restless, Perpetual, Mankind, Desire

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

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  Tags in Human, Mankind, Damage

• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Redeem, Mankind, Cooperation

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in God

  Tags in Objects, Behold, Understand, Mankind, Curious

• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Sin, Right, Mankind, Criticism

• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Suffering, Wisdom

  Tags in Great, Read, Thing, Mankind, Medicine, Crime

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Augustine of Hippo

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• Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

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• Men are only as loyal as their options.

  Bill Maher

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  Tags in Opinions, Mankind, Loyal, Men And Women, Men

• Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Superstition, Idolatry, Mankind, Mind, Men

• There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

  Mortimer J. Adler

  Topics in Effort, Love

  Tags in Situation, Women, Reading, Mankind, Men

• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Mankind, Men And Women

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  Zhuangzi

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• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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• I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Illusion, Manipulate, Mankind, Mind

• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Charles Dickens

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• If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

  Andreas Capellanus

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  Tags in Precious, Friends, Treasure, Mankind, Compared

• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  Arthur Ashe

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  Tags in Manners, Appearance, Mankind, Clothes

• It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

  Angelus Silesius

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Than, Individual, Ahead, Good, Even, More, Still, Remains, Spark, Mankind