Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Mankind
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
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How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!
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