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“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

Mankind Events Ought Ordinary Madness Philosopher Stupidity Historian Wickedness Imbeciles

Author:David Hume

“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.”

Three Causes Mankind Ignorance Madness Errors Excited Remedy Toil Discontent Mazes Bewildered

Book:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

Source: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”

Writing Mankind Madness Mad Contradiction Keep Going Never Quit

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

Ends Spirit Politics Party Mankind Politician Gains Madness Unhappy Division

Author:Alexander Pope

“With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

Long Mankind Periods Machines Madness Misery Operations Farms Farmers Agriculture Farming Introduction Meanness Farming And Farmers

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness