Mankind Quotes - Page 12
For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
Ernest Vincent Wright (2014). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E"”, p.55, WETZEL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.365, Penguin
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland
Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc
William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated
W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.258, DEBOLS!LLO
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.782, Wordsworth Editions
1680 TheOrphan, act 3.
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.163
Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.266, Cambridge University Press
Sylvia A. Earle (2009). “The World Is Blue”, p.257, National Geographic Books
Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles (1993). “Antigone”, p.26, Courier Corporation
A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.
Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.89, Macmillan
