So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.
Science is the future of mankind.
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.
. . . wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!
For millennia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pay for the universe. It is the ultimate free lunch.
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
