"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

George Gissing, British Novelist

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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

Thomas Malthus, English Economist

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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."

Vachel Lindsay, American Poet

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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"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."

Henry Cabot Lodge, American Politician

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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

Marquis De Vauvenargues, French Philosopher

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"General consultant to mankind."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."

James Rouse, American Businessman

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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

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"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"

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"Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit."

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"In true prose everything must be underlined."

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"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

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"Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined."

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"Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated."

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"About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy."

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"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."

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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."

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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."

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