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Mankind
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Reason
| Keywords:
endowed, homo, Homo sapiens, pin, sapiens, unreasonable, with reason
«Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
average, averages, ideas, on average, on the average, small talk, talk, talk about, wine, wines
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.»
«Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided»