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Mankind
«Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.»
Author: Frederick Henry Hedge
| About:
Destiny,
Mankind
| Keywords:
ancestor, devises, devising, heir, inheriting, inherits
«For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.»
Author: Joyce Cary
(Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Evil,
Freedom,
Goodness,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
continuous, insecurity, queer
«Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error»
«For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| About:
Eyes,
Future,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Vision,
World
| Keywords:
dipped, dipping, dips, dip into, Human eye, saw, See Saw, The Vision
«For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Evil,
Intelligence,
Mankind
| Keywords:
added, brute, defense, instrument, powerless
«For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Appearance,
Influence,
Mankind,
Reality
| Keywords:
appearance, influenced, majority, mankind, realities, satisfied
«Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
at last, Divine, every last, fully, otherwise, rests, supposes, The Last Man, understood