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«The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.»

Author: Georges Bataille | Keywords: ceaselessly, decisive, human origin, origin, questioning, The opposition, the Origin

«Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.»

Author: Horace Mann | About: Education | Keywords: balance, balance wheel, devices, disarm, disarmed, equalizer, hostility, human origin, machinery, origin, prevents, The Social, wheel

«Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.»

Author: Ulysses S. Grant (President) | Keywords: deserves, even as, human origin, origin, The Station

«Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.»

Author: Horace Mann | About: Education | Keywords: balance wheel, devices, equalizer, human origin, machinery, origin, The Social, wheel

«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay (Historian) | Keywords: arbitrary, befallen, befalls, calamities, deceivers, destroyers, foundering, founders, human origin, noted, origin, tenths, The Destroyers, The Founders, the union

«My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them»

Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Christianity, Reason | Keywords: advancing, Christian, clearer, earlier, early Christians, ever-changing, human origin, origin, salvation, scheme, scheming, scriptures, stronger, The Christian, unsoundness, views, years

«We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself . . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.»

Author: Carl Gustav Jung (Founder, Psychologist) | Keywords: human origin, know nothing, origin, psyche, studied, the Origin

«I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.»

Author: William Ellery Channing (Author, Clergyman) | Keywords: bound up, celestial, examples, human origin, pledges, saintly

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