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“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”

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Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”

Play Dies Mankind Civilization Fairs Philosophical Calm Irony Humankind Debauchery Fair Play

Book:The Modern Temper

Source: The Modern Temper

“Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.”

Mean Has Beens Hands Past Law Creative Mankind Tasks Philosophical Instruments Determine Philosopher Hammers Giver Commanders Laborers

Book:Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

“The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.”

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Book:Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy

“The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.”

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Author:Plutarch

“A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants”

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Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato

“The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.”