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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Charlie Chaplin

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Nikola Tesla, (attributed)

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Various

4. "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"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

5. "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

Quotations about: Various

6. "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"

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Walt Whitman, "Song Of Myself"

Quotations about: God and Religion

9. "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"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Good and Evil

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

Robert McNamara

Quotations about: Good and Evil

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

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Peace and War

12. "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

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

13. "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

14. "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"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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

Baruch Spinoza

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Oration and Silence

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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

17. "We are but dust and shadow."

Horace, "Odes"

18. "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"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

19. "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

Quotations about: Art and Culture

20. "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"

Quotations about: Various

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21. "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

22. "If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know who you are?"

Dr. Claude Fischler

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

23. "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Life and Death

24. "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."

André Gide

Quotations about: Love

25. "One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

26. "Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be."

Ambrose Bierce

27. "Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic."

Christina Stead

Quotations about: Various

28. "Sometimes a man has to go through hell to turn to an angel."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

29. "Measure others' greatness not by the position they hold but by their ability to treat it with reserve."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Success and Fame -:- Various

30. "Stop following someone else's path, find your own."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Various

31. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Power and Weakness

32. "The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."

Willa Cather, "The Professor's House"

Quotations about: Various

33. "It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

Baudouin I, (Belgian King)

Quotations about: Peace and War

34. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Samuel Johnson

35. "Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

36. "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

John Dryden

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

37. "Character develops itself in the stream of life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Various

38. "Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quotations about: Science and Technology

39. "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Various

40. "Life is lived in common, but not in community."

Michael Harrington

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Life and Death

41. "The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen."

Milan Kundera, "Immortality"

42. "I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Egoism

43. "We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."

George Wald

44. "Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character."

Horace

Quotations about: Various

45. "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Anais Nin

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

46. "Our two eyes do not make our lot better; one serves us to see the good things, the other the evils of life. A lot of people have the bad habit of closing the first, and very few close the second."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "The One-Eyed Porter"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

47. "Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?"

Mark Hanna, "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

48. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Good and Evil

49. "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

Herman Melville

Quotations about: Richness and Money

50. "Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?"

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

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