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Mankind
«The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.»
«The history of mankind is the history of ideas.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
History,
Ideas,
Mankind
| Keywords:
history of ideas
«The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Mankind,
Mind
| Keywords:
assumptions, capture, chaotic, fictions, fin, fins, flux, incomprehensible, scheme, serving, unreal, urge
«The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
advanced, ardor, caution, deed, enriched, enriching, Idealists, The Idealists, The Visionary, visionaries, winds
«The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it»
«The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
evidently, preferring, slavish, suitable, tastes
«The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conscience,
Mankind
| Keywords:
consciousness, forgetting, homogeneous
«The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Babies,
Family,
Fathers,
Helpfulness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
dishes