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“I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.”

Mean Problem Lasts Fighting Destiny Mankind Weakness Overcoming Regard Institutions Work Out Supreme Graves Imperfection Architect True Life Portal Masonic

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”

Mean Has Beens Moments Women Work Mankind Genius Supreme Luxury

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.”

People World States Young Lines Education Destiny Generations Mankind Supreme Combat Adequate Young Generation Educating The Young

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“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.”

“Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.”

Men Mankind Supreme Deceiving Englishmen Knack

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.”

“To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.”

Should Mankind Type Supreme Host Standing Out Hostesses Lady Macbeth

Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

“Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.”

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Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.”

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Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

“Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.”

Firsts Together Desire Mankind Hero Models Remains Saint Supreme This Day Sanctity

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”

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Author:Peter De Vries