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“If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.”

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Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.”

Knows Firsts Mankind Essence Agree Senses Limbs

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”

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Author:Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.”

Thinking Mankind Essence Superstitions Refuge

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.”

Men Problem My Own Opinion Mankind Men And Women Essence

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

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Author:George Orwell

“Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.”

Source: The Classic Horror Stories