“Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.” AgeMiddleMankindImpressionGreekMiddle AgesRepressedHystericalBoyhood Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.” ShouldLongUseFatherPoorClassSuccessfulRichMiddleSubjectsMankindHigherLettersOrganizationDisasterMiddle ClassExecutivesStationsPassagesExposedCalamitySalesmanVicissitudesRobinson Crusoe Author:B. C. Forbes
“I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.” KnowsAgeDesireConsciousnessGreaterFateWonderfulMiddleMankindAwarenessCapacityDepthWonderful ThingsMiddle Ages Author:Marianne Williamson
“As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.” PeopleIfsMenShouldHumansRealMatterGrowsHuman BeingsFictionStudyMiddleMankindFiguresOffersCreaturesConsciousConcernExcuseSignificantReal LifeComplexitySensibleImaginaryIrrationalElderlyMiddle AgedIncoherenceOccupy Yourself Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.” IfsMenHumansHateHumanitySpeakNationsEffortRaceClassMiddleMankindStrangeKingsDespairSoldierCuriousMiddle ClassPriestsAdoreDistrustHumaneSailorDividingWorking Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.” HumansStillsEarthMillionsFiveMiddleMankindPlanetsMoonDoctorsRoseSpeciesPopulationBillionsHeightEmpiresCoveredAdamFourthDomainDoctor WhoStretchingPlanet EarthHubYour Boyfriend Author:Russell T Davies