Human

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

Human

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Like the sunflower, it is our nature to turn always toward the light."

Dorothy Mendoza Row

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Man is the result of God's experiments with artificial intelligence."

Kazimierz Matan

God and Religion

Human

Rating: 8.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Man is designed as a perfect device. However, some copies behave as if the manufacturer has forgotten to connect them with all the circuits."

Kazimierz Matan

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To grow you need to understand that the most important word in the world is not the word "me"."

Kazimierz Matan

Egoism

Human

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"If there is no God, man is most unfortunate freak of nature. "

Kazimierz Matan

God and Religion

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nothing joins two people as much as a joint mortgage."

Kazimierz Matan

Human

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Some people live as if Copernicus did not exist - they think that everything revolves around them. "

Kazimierz Matan

Egoism

Human

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Sex is a trap set by nature to ensure the survival of our species."

Kazimierz Matan

Human

Love

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Some people are like clouds, when they disappear, it is a brighter day."

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Human

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Man is not the creature of circumstance. Circumstances are the creatures of men."

Benjamin Disraeli

Human

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Man is the only animal crazy enough to climb a summit merely to prove he can do it."

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Human

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody

Human

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Human

Richness and Money

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed."

George VI (Radio broadcast, September 23, 1940)

Human

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

Jean Genet "Notes for The Screens"

Human

Law and Crime

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"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"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 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

Education

Human

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Love

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"... 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

Authority, Government

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 7.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Happiness

Human

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

Human

Rating: 8.43 (Number of Voters: 7)

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

Samuel Johnson

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."

F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

Human

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every man is his own hell."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

God and Religion

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Human

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Samuel Beckett

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 2.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Courage and Fear

Human

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

David Gerrold

Human

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

William Hazlitt "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Vera Brittain "The Rebel Passion"

Human

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Pope John XXIII

Good and Evil

Human

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Human

Various

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Henry David Thoreau

Human

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

William Golding "Lord of the Flies"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Our technology has surpassed our humanity."

Albert Einstein

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Human

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Thomas Browne "Urn Burial"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Edwin Powell Hubble

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Men have become tools of their tools."

Henry David Thoreau

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

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

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Human

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Torquato Tasso"

Human

Talent and Genius

Various

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Hermann Hesse "Reflections"

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Levi-Strauss-Claude

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Charlie Chaplin

Health and Alcohol

Human

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)