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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

— Giambattista Vico

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

— J. William Fulbright

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

— David Allan Coe

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

— Annie Besant

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

— Ayn Rand

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

— Abba Eban

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

— David Riesman

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

— Abba Eban

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

— V. S. Naipaul

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.

— James Oliver

✗Opposing Perspectives

All men are created equal.

— Paul Gosar