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“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

Thinking Reason Truth Belief Given Term Education Mankind Possibility Opposites Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.”

Stills Two Soul Support Mankind Stupid Genius Ordinary Filled Extremes Dull Mediocrity Fewer Multitudes Sublime Transcendent Ornaments Intervals Commonwealth Generalities Two Extremes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.”

Perfect Attitude Struggle Mankind Materials Ideals Meetings Extremes Luxury Goods Intensity

Book:Her Brothers Her Journal

Source: Her Brothers Her Journal

“Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.”

Mankind Pride Built Extremes Contempt Disrespect Incivility

Author:John G. Zimmerman

“Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.”

Men Self Matter Character Shows Mankind Human Nature Mass Capable Extremes Restraint Self Restraint Steadfastness

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.”

Feels May Desire Mankind Kings Mass Extremes Length Beggar Ardent

Book:Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.”

“I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.”

Mankind Extremes Repeats Principal Moderation

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”

People Men Firsts Facts Earth Used White Written Feet Mankind Behavior Consequence Concern Function Environmental Extremes Contact Boat Indian White Man Elders First Contact

Author:Leonard Peltier