Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
No man is so great as mankind.
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless.
