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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under... More
... by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become... More
... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply... More
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have... More
... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in... More
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their... More
... people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives. More
... the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. More
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his... More
... the space left to freedom is very small. ... ends are inherent in human nature and the same... More
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great... More
...the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. More
A dreamlike feebleness by which the blind race of man is hampered. More
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. More
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless... More
A state ... arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all... More
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. More
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if... More
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they... More
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy... More
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think... More
All our steps are ordered by the LORD; how then can we understand our own ways? More
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great... More
And what I pity in you is something human,
The old incurable untimeliness,
Only begetter... More
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. More
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different... More
As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain circumspection and... More
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. More
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies... More
But by the grace of God I am what I am... More
But does not happiness come from the soul within? More
But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior... More
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. More
Custom is our nature.... What are our natural principles but principles of custom? More
Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its... More
Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not... More
Elsa Bannister: The Chinese say “It is difficult for love to last long; therefore one who loves... More
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. More
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being. More
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things. More
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world,... More
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes... More
For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our... More
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. More
Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, patriotic men, are better than gold. More
Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. Now suppose we could break that... More
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society... More
Growing has no connection with audience. / Audience has no
connection with identity. /... More
He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being... More
He knew human folly like the back of his hand, More
He was warned. And now he’s paid. Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and... More
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson. More
He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its... More
He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a... More
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say... More
How cheap must be the material of which so many men are made! More
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! More
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. More
Human judgment of human actions is true and void, that is to say, first true and then void....... More
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined... More
Human nature is above all things—lazy. More
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. More
Human-nature will not change. More
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path. More
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in... More
I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes... More
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head.... But I cannot conceive man without... More
I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe. More
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts,... More
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any... More
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a... More
I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along... More
I have formed a strong theory that there is no such thing as “turning into” a Nasty Old Man... More
I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know... More
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people ... I mean men and women,... More
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so... More
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral... More
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves,... More
I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed... More
I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when... More
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of... More
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will... More
If a sound justification for most scientific activity is going to be found, it will eventually... More
If he exalt himself, I humble him; if he humble himself, I exalt him; and I always contradict... More
If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as... More
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. More
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a... More
If you would avoid uncleanness, and all the sins, work earnestly, though it be at cleaning a... More
In a certain sense, women who write fiction and political feminists comes from two different... More
In a hundred people, one finds all kinds. More
In nature there’s no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind. More
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are,... More
In peacetime, they had all been normal decent, cowards, frightened of their wives, trembling... More
in the human
faults and depths
silences
floating
between night and... More
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity... More
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while... More
It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on... More
It is a rare life that remains well-ordered even in private. More
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind... More
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. More

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