Animal Quote by Baron d'Holbach Download Open image “The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.” — Baron d'Holbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Ignorance Ignorance Nature Man Unhappiness Men Nature Sadness Source Unhappiness Unhappiness Ignorance
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“...[he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily… — Arthur Phillips Prague Copy Share Image
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves. — William James Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?' I… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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