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“Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”

Made Might Too Much Mankind Hero Tests Finals Saint Handle Latter

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.”

Might Too Much Mankind Danger Ideals Rounds Imaginary Idealism Vague Ridicule Geese Wild Geese

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.”

Too Much Mankind Accommodate

Author:Kobo Abe

“Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.”

Has Beens Soul Able Force Too Much Mankind Divine Faculty Exalted

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.”

Thinking Littles Sin Too Much Mankind

Book:Christian Science Sentinel

Source: Christian Science Sentinel

“There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.”

May Littles Universe Too Much Mankind Grain Particles Trifles

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.”

Ifs Too Much Mankind

Book:Disenchantment

Source: Disenchantment

“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”

People Moments Too Much Mankind Hated Appropriate That Moment Representatives Cradle Cats Cradle

Book:Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel