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“There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”
“It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely”
“If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.”
“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You se...”
“Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.”
“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”
“How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like ...”
“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is possible only through the fact that empathy with the universal life and suffer...”
“Well in those parts (upcountry India) they have were-tigers, or think they have, and I must say that in this case, so far as sworn and uncontested evidence went, they had every ground for thinking ...”
“He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.”
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”
“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore;Our only portion is the estate of man: We want the moon, but we shall get no more. (Last Poems, IX)”
“For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man when ...”
“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”
“Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if theres a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do loo...”
“A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity”
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse...”
“The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, a...”
