“It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.” MenMadeSportsPiecesMankindPoetWeaknessArgumentWitReasoningSurprisingQuotationsSuperficialSimileDelightedJestOratorsInconsequential Book:The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Source: The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
“In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.” WorldWellsOpportunityPiecesOne ThingMankindThis WorldConsequenceWelfare Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.” ThinkingArtInspirationNaturalPiecesMankindFieldsMuseumsSelectedNatural HistoryMuseum Of Natural History Author:Warren MacKenzie
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.” IfsKnowsMenInspirationalWellsDeathFriendshipCommunityChristianityPiecesSeaMankindInvolvedEuropeEvery ManTheeIslandsBellsContinentsDiminishInterdependenceTollsGriefingDeath GriefGrief And DeathWhom The Bell TollsCommunity Action Author:John Donne
“The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds” FirstsSoundPiecesMankindPaperCanvasSheetsMarble Author:Alfred de Vigny
“Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?” ThinkingWorldMadeSaidGrowsWaterPiecesMankindDependsHotBlessedGreenAwfulGrassBossFacultyDiamondGlobesDirtHandfulFunny ThingsApprehension Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men