81 quotes found
“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless a...”
“Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow sing;Draw from the shapeless momentSuch pattern as you can;And cleave henceforth to Beauty;Expec...”
“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.”
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.”
“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt their thoughts, hardly have they scribbled their id...”
“Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power, that fruit reputed to be so full of wealth and glory. Cant every gang becom...”
“It does not take a man to stand with the strong, it takes a man to stand with the weak and oppose the strong.”
“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; just...”
“Religion can only do two things for mankind turn them into monster or stupid. ”
“It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-cla...”
“Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for th...”
“All men have a soul.”
“From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence only grows stronger as science and technology record a...”
“You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.”
“Suffering is the common lot of man.”
“The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to...”
“May you be of service to mankind.”
“For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary”
“I don't like straight lines: men make them.”
“The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.”
