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“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Ends Age Turns Mistake Accepting Mankind Stupid Nervous Shells Hook Pastries Nervousness Stupid Mistake

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.”

Mean Real Mistake Atheism Mankind Determination Prejudice Faults Positive Atheism Folly Convince Sensible

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.”

Knows Men Believe Heart Play Mistake Mankind Tragedy Theater Every Man

Author:Albert Camus

“It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.”

Thinking Long Running Mistake Mankind Conscience Appeals Long Runs Breeding

Book:The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons

“The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.”

People Heart Lying Mistake Mankind Eating Mouths Feasting

Author:John Wolcot

“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”

Men World Should Doe Made Earth Mother Community Animal Cities Mistake Worst Mankind Building Evidence Mental Health Isolation Mother Earth Gregarious

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”

Mistake Mankind Eternal Ideals Thelema Continual Growth

Author:Aleister Crowley

“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”

Lasts Mistake Mankind Errors Resorts

Book:The Vision of Nietzsche

Source: The Vision of Nietzsche

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”