Decadence Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos

“Humanity is collectively compelled to take the path of spirit to its inevitable conclusion.”

— Simon Boylan

“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but…

— Andre Dubus III

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition…

— Indira Gandhi

“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows…

— G.K. Chesterton

Bono. He still is somebody who, and I don't say I'm starstruck in that sense, I'm always in awe of. It doesn't matter how…

— Michael Rapino

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

— Bertrand Russell

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

— Maria Montessori

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

— Anton Webern

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.”

— John Smelcer