“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.” WorldBelieveMayImportantHelpingFeelingsSeemsIndividualCan DoEnvironmentMankindCreatingVoteElectionMajorityMiseryPresidentialImprovingFallacyHysteriaCan Do SomethingConceitedPresidential ElectionDoing Your BestReasonableness Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.” KnowsFeelsEndsForceCan DoMankindDrivenGrievingAtomsUnnecessary Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.” WayMadeFormFoundTermCan DoMoralPrinciplesMankindMouthsConsequenceAltruismSanctionsEgoismCollectivismDegeneratesHybridHedonism Author:Albert J. Nock
“The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.” WantDoeFactsLyingCan DoMankind Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!” ThinkingMayLastsBeautifulLostEnjoyCan DoMankindEternityBeautiful ThingsDay To DayLost Time Book:Memories Source: Memories