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1. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

2. "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham, Speech to the House of Commons

Other categories: Education

3. "There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Love

4. "... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Life and Death

5. "Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Happiness

6. "Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals."

Pierre De Beaumarchais, "Le Mariage de Figaro"

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

7. "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

Samuel Johnson

Other categories: Good and Evil

8. "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

9. "Every man is his own hell."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Good and Evil

10. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

Other categories: God and Religion -:- Manners and Ethics

11. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Nature and Animals

12. "Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."

Samuel Beckett

Other categories: Art and Culture

13. "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

14. "The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them."

David Gerrold

Other categories: Question and Problem

15. "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

16. "Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

Vera Brittain, "The Rebel Passion"

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

17. "Good men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII

Other categories: Youth and Age -:- Good and Evil

18. "True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Various

19. "The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Various

20. "Maybe there is a beast.... maybe it's only us."

William Golding, "Lord of the Flies"

Other categories: Good and Evil

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21. "Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Science and Technology

22. "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Other categories: Various

23. "Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Various

24. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Thomas Browne, "Urn Burial"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

25. "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

Edwin Powell Hubble

Other categories: Science and Technology

26. "Men have become tools of their tools."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Science and Technology

27. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

Do you know who wrote this?

Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

28. "Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Torquato Tasso"

Other categories: Various -:- Talent and Genius

29. "All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us."

Hermann Hesse, "Reflections"

Other categories: Good and Evil

30. "A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."

Georges Clemenceau

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

31. "Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

32. "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

Charlie Chaplin

Other categories: Health and Alcohol

33. "Our virtues and failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla, (attributed)

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Various

34. "The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter."

Fulton John Sheen, "Those Mysterious Priests"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

35. "I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one."

James Baldwin

Other categories: Various

36. "Man as we know him is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is traveling in the right direction."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge), "Outspoken Essays: Second Series"

37. "It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."

Mahatma Gandhi

38. "In the faces of men and women I see God."

Walt Whitman, "Song Of Myself"

Other categories: God and Religion

39. "In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."

Clive Staples Lewis, "God In The Dock"

Other categories: Nature and Animals -:- Good and Evil

40. "I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good."

Robert McNamara

Other categories: Good and Evil

41. "So long as there are men there will be wars."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Peace and War

42. "Humankind is at the crossroads. One path leads to utter despair and hopelessness. The other path to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Woody Allen

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

43. "If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Clive Staples Lewis

44. "Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report"

Other categories: Science and Technology

45. "What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter."

Baruch Spinoza

Other categories: Egoism -:- Oration and Silence

46. "The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."

Claude Lévi-Strauss

47. "We are but dust and shadow."

Horace, "Odes"

48. "Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

Other categories: Nature and Animals

49. "There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."

Ursula K. LeGuin

Other categories: Art and Culture

50. "Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

Iris Murdoch, "The Message to the Planet"

Other categories: Various

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