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“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.”

World Firsts Faces Order Mankind Products Demand Achievement Mass Harmony Structure Western Rounds Complexity Thrown Globes Laboratory Elimination Western World Filth Prodigious

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.”

“In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.”

Ifs Men Age Culture Found Moral Support Mankind Morality Demand Achievement Arise Immorality Susceptibility

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.”

Action Creative Mankind Periods Quiet Achievement Tranquility Tranquil Tranquillity Peace And Tranquility Peace Tranquility Peace And Serenity

Author:George Santayana

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

Ifs Thinking Space Mankind Produce Achievement Impressed Greatest Achievement

Author:Sharon Shinn

“The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.”

Knows Men Use Energy Given Know How Mankind Achievement Intellectual Smart Curiosity Genuine Lazy Incentives Aptitude Generalities

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.”

Talking Mankind Achievement Not Talking Greatest Achievement

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”

“Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.”

“You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.”

Country Together Political Social Principles Mankind Achievement Greatest Political

Author:Paul Tsongas