You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
“Each person must develop a wholesome personal response to enduring the hardships of daily life and witnessing the discord, disharmony, dissension, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of the utmost insignificance. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
“... love pales into insignificance when pitted against ambition.” — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Having the Greatness of the Creator in your mind would make you realize the insignificance of the creatures in your view. — Ismail Copy Share Image
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being… — John Paul Bernett Copy Share Image
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty,… — Mack Sennett Copy Share Image
“...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed… — Henry Spencer Ashbee Copy Share Image
“The recognition of human insignificance did not, as one might have expected, enhance the role of divine agency in explaining human affairs:… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“One day when I went to see him (Picasso), we were looking at the dust dancing in a ray of sunlight that… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
