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“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

Thinking Reason Truth Belief Given Term Education Mankind Possibility Opposites Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?”

Source: Peace and Bread in Time of War

“Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.”

World Children Leadership Generations Mankind Possibility Offers Ruins World Leader Rebuilding

Author:Eglantyne Jebb

“We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.”

“One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.”

“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.”

Source: Silent Spring

“Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life.”

Mind Shows Spirituality Mankind Possibility Development Capacity Inevitability

Book:The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

“The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.”

Purpose Wonder Mankind Possibility Poetry Is

Author:Octavio Paz

“Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.”

Source: The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings

“I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.”

Kind Moments Path Mankind Possibility Being Wrong

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”

Science Technology Impossible Modern Mankind Possibility Positive Taught Lessons Technique Fallen Inherent Modern Science Impossible Things Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Lewis Mumford