Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind...

God is the originator of life.

Religion can only do two things for mankind; turn them into monster or stupid.

Unsere Fähigkeit zur Verantwortung ist […] nicht etwas, das durch Philosophen, Politiker oder Geistliche quasi von außen in unser Leben hineingebracht würde, sie gehört vielmehr zum Grundbestand des Humanum. Wir verlieren uns selbst, wenn wir...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as...

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak...

Humans see what they want to see.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in...

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,With too...

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad...

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light

Creation of mankind, the power of God.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We’ll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn’t right, your Reverence. The world will be...

If mankind’s greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Zoltán looked at them through the window. He hated the man. Now he hated work. Work for these? Work with these? He saw before him the great puszta. Here the long, cracked stripe of a...

What infinite heart’s-easeMust kings neglect, that private men enjoy!And what have kings, that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?What kind of god art thou, that suffer’st moreOf...

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single...

People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but...

Religion is still useful among the herd – that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be....

[Darwin] gave an answer to the tremendous question that so deeply concerns…What is Man? [He] answered this question to the effect that man is a natural product of the universe;…man is an animal, a vertebrate,...

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine,...

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

All men have a soul.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

What is the future of men who havelost sight of the past?Earl Hollsopple lived on the edge of civilization in a deserted shack for nearly forty years. His life was one beautiful night of stargazing...

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we’ll be doomed to repeat it.

The world and it’s people are my church”.~R. Alan Woods [1996]

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave us Occasion to understand the Secrets of Nature which otherwise might have overwhelm’d...

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity,...

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU’VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE’S MISTAKES!I GIVE YOU… THE AVERAGE MAN!PHYSICALLY UNREMARKABLE, IT HAS INSTEAD...

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

A selfless service to humanity is also a selfless service to God

If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do somethingtangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that...

Wherever you are you have to work to earn your own living.

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother

Daily life, the sacred time of a man.

The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of...

Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith...