110 quotes found
“Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.”
“Man is an abyss and I turn giddy when I look down into it.”
“We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.”
“For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.”
“I am mortal born to love and to suffer.”
“I am a man nothing human is alien to me.”
“Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.”
“I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.”
“It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.”
“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of th...”
“Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.”
“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.”
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.”
“Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.”
“Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.”
“Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.”
“Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.”
“Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.”
“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”
