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Mankind
«I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation»
Author: William Irwin Thompson
| About:
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
contradiction, emerging, internal, navigation, New World, strain
«I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Death and dying,
Living,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conceive, live-and-die, species
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
affluent, ascend, ascends, attributed, attributing, beings, descends, existence, existence of God, human beings, interesting, material, meanest, poorest, responsibility, scale, scaled, scaling, standard, style, the existence of God
«I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
capable, compassion, creatures, endurance, endure, immortal, immortals, inexhaustible, prevail, sacrifice
«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 there's some kind of change.»
Author: Bob Dylan
| About:
Future,
Mankind,
Mind,
Past
| Keywords:
comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, human mind, illusions, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating
«I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
blemish, blemished, blemishes, curse, depravities, depravity, expedient, Expedients, instinct, intrinsic, mortal, petty, poisonous, revenge, subterranean, sufficiently
«I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.»