I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
I want to live among human people, very human. People, who can laugh at their mistakes.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Beware the man of a single book.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals. When separated from law and justice, is the worst of all.
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Rise and demand; you are a burning flame.
Do not assume something is impossible because you find it hard but recognize that if it is humanly possible, you can do it too.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
"Weakness" is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female. Whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.”
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we' ll have war.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
We do not go to concerts just to listen to music. It is the human need to be together. It is our basic need.
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
I never met another man I would rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Of course many people will have much to say. We should listen. But we won't be deceived by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great.
Man appoints, God disappoints.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness
Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
Man is what he believes.
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
The object of the superior man is truth.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
The mind of man is capable of anything.
I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
The old man was once young but the young is not sure that will be old.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Indian high chiefs were frolicking freely with young Arawak beauties.... Barons and Marquis from the court of Louis XIV were playing leapfrog on the grass.... In the motley crowd, I also saw Simon Bolivar.... The time of masks had assembled three centuries of human history.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
The happiest man is the one who makes people happy.
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
No man is hurt but by himself.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals. Also the most silly.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe.
Intelligence is the ability of seeing and reproducing in an objective manner everything that exists and happens.
A man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.
A wise man does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those he has.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.
“The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.”
God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.
Those who consider weak the people mastered by their passions are like that crazy doctor who named a man to be fool just because he had seen him suffering of fever.
“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles.
No mortal man is wise at all moments.
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Conscience is a man's compass.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”
“However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Why do those who demand repentance, repent so little themselves?
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
“Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.”
Man is not something fixed or completed, but a being constantly shaped through choices, possibilities, and awareness of life itself.”
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
A man's character is his fate.
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
A man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
There is time for many words, and there is also time for sleep.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Man proposes, God disposes
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Human beings don't exist for food and clothes alone, you know. We become human beings only when we get educated and informed
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
The goodness of a man is stronger than the cunning of thousand.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
“I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”
“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, is not to have one.
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
The man who memorizes the words of the wise becomes wise.
Human dignity is determined by the path one follows to the end, not by what one achieves.
All human culture is but an attempt at something unattainable, something which far transcends our powers of realization.
No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. - Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
What is a hero without love for mankind.
I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
Anarchy is synonymous with Socialism. Because both signify the abolition of exploitation and of the domination of man over man, whether maintained by the force of arms or by the monopolization of the means of life.
Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers his fear.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.
Man is a universe within himself.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
To say more than what's necessary I don't think is appropriate for a man.
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
I love humanity but I hate people.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.
The primary purpose of a concert is not perfection in performance but communication.
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
All human (and non-human) beings have long-term interests in common.
I have met many young men, who have the skeletons of the old covered by the garb of youth. On the other hand, I have met many elderly people who are weighed down by age but beneath the cloud there lies the glorious sun of youth.
The man plows the fertile land, the woman sows it, greening it.
The man comes with the thirst of the desert, the woman offers a drink of honey.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous play thing.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
No bad man can be a good poet.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
The culture of social and mass media is very restless and hectic and frenzied. This is going to make the human psyche, especially among young people here, very volatile
Whoever knows many things By nature is a poet.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Creatures of a day! What is a man? What is he not? A dream of a shadow Is our mortal being.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the tragedy is when a man is afraid of the light.
He was a wise man, the one he invented beer.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
To err is human; to forgive is divine.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.
There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Either be silent or say things of more value than silence. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Man is mortal with his fears, and immortal with his wishes.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
.. but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
A hero is a man who does what he can.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?”
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
The will of man is his happiness.
Need and boredom are the two poles of human life.
A man can do what he wants, but not know what he wants.
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then.
A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
No man was ever wise by chance.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Our criticism of the thesis advanced by the Society for European Culture is that it is monstrously anti-humanist. For if European civilization were to be imposed, unmodified, on all Peoples and Continents, it could only be by force
Listen to many, speak to a few.
All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
An honest man is always a child.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
I love songs that talk about beauty, courage and humanity.
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Love between a man and a woman is a war.
A man marries when he has nothing else to think about.
Humanity is a string of monkeys.
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Too Many words are not a proof of Wisdom.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
I have sailed many waters, Skirted islands of fire,
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves..
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relief in deep slumber
It is difficult to predict human feelings
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
Nothing is slower than the actual birth of human.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.