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“Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.”

Natural Views Mankind Judging Artificial Standpoint

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.”

People Might Mankind Judging

Book:The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846

Source: The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846

“Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.”

Want Reason Philosophy Lying Mankind Judging Ought Appeals Dictator Pope Infallible

Book:The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“Great God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created! The judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated! The trumpet sounds; the graves restore, The dead which they contained before; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!”

Soul Ends Sound Mankind Judging Glory Clouds Graves My Soul Trumpets Advent

Author:Martin Luther

“God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”

Men Should Earth Purpose Mankind Ignorance Judging Guarantees Righteousness Repent Overlooked

Author:Paul the Apostle

“Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.”

Men Mankind Judging Imperfect Perfect Man Imperfect Man

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?”

Way Done Mankind Judging Shadow Fancy Another Way Spinning Airy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

“Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.”

“Our inhuman enemy inspires the thought that God loves mankind, and that He quickly forgives this sin. But when we observe the guile of demons, then we see that after the commission of the sin, they suggest to us that God is a righteous and implacable Judge. The first they say in order to lead us to sin, the second, in order to weigh us down in despair.”

Inspirational Firsts Christian Order Religious Sin Enemy Mankind Inspire Judging Despair Forgiving God Love Demon Orthodox Righteous Inhuman Guile

Author:John Climacus

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.”

Wisdom Success Quality Careers Mankind Judging Environmental Size Salary Automobile Volunteerism Volunteerism And Service

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury