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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole. - Aristotle I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state. - James Baldwin Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. - Albert Camus The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. - Charles Andre Joseph de Gaulle Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought. - Ernest Dimnet The proper study of mankind is books. - Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (ch. 28) As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Gustav Jung The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. - Desmond Morris Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche No man is so great as mankind. - Theodore Parker If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that difference in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. - Gene Roddenberry, from Inside Trek by Susan Sackett A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind. - William Shenstone Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. - James Thurber
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