“Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?” ShouldMankindStrangeBattle Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.” MenBrainMankindStrangePaperMurderIntellectNonsensePapers Book:The Seven That Were Hanged Source: The Seven That Were Hanged
“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.” MenAnimalEducationKnowledgeLearningMankindStrangeWallEducationalHandwritingHandwriting On The Wall Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.” PeopleYearsIdeasReasonDreamMankindStrangePlanetsCoupleThousandDestructionDisappearSeatsDestroyingFadesThousand YearsFade Away Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.” ThinkingWorldGivingPersonsLiteratureWiseMankindThis WorldStrangeDelightProofSuspicionBeing Wise Book:The Confidence-Man Source: The Confidence-Man
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.” MenTryingBelieveLittlesSoulSelfI BelieveDarkKnownMankindStrangeMen And WomenForestsMy SoulSubmitCreedsComes And GoesClearingSelf Will Author:D. H. Lawrence
“That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.” WorldMayDoneWholeSpiritVisionMankindStrangeBottomHarmSensesEndlessEncountersCrowdedHave CourageCowardlyInexplicableSpirit World Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.” IfsMenHumansHateHumanitySpeakNationsEffortRaceClassMiddleMankindStrangeKingsDespairSoldierCuriousMiddle ClassPriestsAdoreDistrustHumaneSailorDividingWorking Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton