John Dunne (January 22, 1572 – March 31, 1631) No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and …
Rachel Carson On Mankind
Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny.
Blaise Pascal On Mankind
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Margaret Fuller On Mankind
Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810–July 19, 1850) This country needs… no thin Idealist, no coarse Realist, but a man whose eye reads the heavens, while his feet step firmly on the ground, and his hands are strong and dexterous for the use of human implements… a man of universal sympathies, but self-possessed; a man who …
