“It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.” ThinkingShouldHeartHomeBeliefMy OwnMoralSawsMankindArroganceInfallibleOmnipotence Author:John Buchan
“I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).” MenWayShouldBelieveReasonFactsFormHateI BelieveTeachSawsMankindArgumentHatredRelatedMistrustCriminality Author:Karl Popper
“When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind” MenSawsMankindProtectionRationalBranches Book:The Stationary Ark Source: The Stationary Ark
“He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.” LittlesSufferingPleasureSawsMankindBecomingSakeGrayUnworthyDespisedChildlikeToiling Author:Hermann Hesse