Humans Quotes by Herman Melville

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

— Herman Melville

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

— Herman Melville

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon…

— Herman Melville

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of…

— Herman Melville

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is…

— Herman Melville

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear…

— Herman Melville

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not…

— Herman Melville

But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue…

— Herman Melville

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into…

— Herman Melville

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of…

— Herman Melville

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

— Herman Melville

I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of…

— Herman Melville

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature…

— Herman Melville

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And…

— Herman Melville

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible…

— Herman Melville

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest…

— Herman Melville

He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of…

— Herman Melville

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know…

— Herman Melville

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but…

— Herman Melville