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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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