Quotes About Mankind

Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.

I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

The Sermon on the Mount outlines the true nature of man, and the proper aim of mankind: concentrate on the day, so that you can live in the present, and attend completely and properly to what is right in front of you—but do that only after you have decided to let what is within shine forth, so that it can justify Being and illuminate the world. Do that only after you have determined to sacrifice whatever it is that must be sacrificed so that you can pursue the highest good.

The imitation and communication of the greatest, most memorable acts necessitates distillation and communication of the patterns of the deepest wisdom of mankind.

The great difficulty of assessing problems in sufficient detail to understand what is causing them, followed by the equally great difficulty of generating and testing particularized solutions, is sufficient to deter even the stouthearted, let us say, from daring to tackle a true plague of mankind.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men—those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

Never forget that if wisdom is the patrimony of mankind, only those of great heart will inherit it,

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.

But further, a man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and Observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils"

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Schelling] viewed art as an organ of metaphysical cognition. The vehicle through which the mysteries of the highest transcendental truths are revealed to mankind.

Of all the will toward the ideal in mankind only a small part can manifest itself in public action. All the rest of this force must be content with small and obscure deeds. The sum of these, however, is a thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition. The latter, compared to the former, are like the foam on the waves of a deep ocean.

So yes, evil can manifest without any great effort of humanity; in fact, it would seem to do so best when we pay the least attention. It's only when mankind decides that it can't live with the outcome that something is done about eliminating it.