Life Quote by Alan Wilson Watts

“What could be more hapless than a man controlled by his own creations? It is surely easier for a man to cease to be…

— Augustine of Hippo

“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or…

— Baron D. Holbach

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself…

— Augustine of Hippo

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship. But man seeks to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his…

— Thomas Mann

“The images of man which I create are not idealized. They embody ideals and characteristics which are worthy for all men: human dignity, peace,…

— Arno Breker

“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will acknowledge no…

— Robert Burton

“The essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and…

— Walter Pater