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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."
"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences."
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."
"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."
"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility."
"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."
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