Quotes About Mankind

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God's greater purpose for mankind.

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?