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«The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.»
«The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Learning,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
attain
«The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
as a matter of fact, carry on, groundbreaking, humanistic, routine, small stuff, synthesis, tip
«The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals»
«The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Mankind,
Social service
| Keywords:
relieve, struggling
«The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
a people, bottom, bottom line, creating, mediocre, one and only, The Bottom, the bottom line, The One and Only, transformed, vile
«The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Mankind,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
bring back, depth, estranges, estranging, The God
«The desire to know is natural to good men.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Desire,
Mankind
| Keywords:
desire to know, natural
«The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
attaining, emancipation
«The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Coaches and Coaching,
Mankind
| Keywords:
coach
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