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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them. (Adams Douglas)
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. (Adams Douglas)
[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. (Adams Douglas)
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. (Adams Douglas)
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge. (Adams Douglas)
Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep. (Adams Douglas)
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. (Adams Douglas)
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world. (Adams Douglas)
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. (Adams Douglas)
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. (Adams Douglas)
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind. (Adams Douglas)
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. (Adams Douglas)
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Adams Douglas)
Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die. (Adams Douglas)
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. (Adams Douglas)
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. (Adams Douglas)
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. (Adams Douglas)
I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. (Adams Douglas)
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. (Adams Douglas)
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. (Adams Douglas)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. (Adams Douglas)
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves. (Adams Douglas)
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. (Adams Douglas)
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself. (Adams Douglas)
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. (Adams Douglas)
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