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“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”

Order Childhood Mankind Produce Source Return Originals Something New New You

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.”

Knows Reason Existence Mankind Source Terrible Extras Belonging Spheres Primitive Calamity Forefathers Omnipotent Boon Cryptic

Book:The Classic Horror Stories

Source: The Classic Horror Stories

“To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.”

People World Ends Moving Spirit Mankind Source Bears Becoming Higher Anxiety Ambition Perfection Majority Pursuit Temper Grapes Thorns Countenance Ignoble Gait

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater

“Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.”

Evil Parent Religious Enemy Mankind Source Folly Fanaticism Theological Disturbance Discord

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

“...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.”

World Mind Humans Past Joy Virtue Mankind Source Vices Chiefs Human Life Peace Of Mind Sensible Moderation Reception Tranquillity Past Experiences

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Whales have become newly symbolic of real values in a world environment of which man is newly aware. Whales live in families, they play in the moonlight, they talk to one another, and they care for one another in distress. They are awesome and mysterious. In their cold, wet, and forbidding world they are complete and successful. They deserve to be saved, not as potential meatballs, but as a source of encouragement to mankind.”

“So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.”

Doe Happens Mankind Source All Things Things Happen

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.”

“Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words.”

Ifs Way May Age Brain Mankind Masters Source Abuse Guides Former Servant Latter Principal Overwhelmed Calamity Swamps

Author:George Horne

“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”

Wisdom Virtue Share Mankind Source Fame Ambition Aim Enjoyed Labour Employed

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”

Men Long Progress Failing Mystery Sea Sky Mankind Source Ignorant Mathematical Steady Abyss Headings Reckoning Source Of Life Steady Progress

Book:Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book

Source: Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book