I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
Charles M. SchulzNo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
John DonneTags: death mankind isolation community
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert CamusTags: man philosophy human-nature mankind
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert CamusTags: life humanity mankind mortality
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark TwainTags: humor mankind evolution creation
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
W.H. AudenI hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel JohnsonTags: humor humour mankind misanthropy
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.
Woody AllenTags: humor god silence mankind
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!
Tags: error doubt reason poetry humanity humility mankind enlightenment fallibility
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama XIVTags: love compassion humanity mankind
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