Nature of man Quote by C.S. Lewis

“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our…

— C.S. Lewis

“We humans are destined to die, which means we’re willing to do it for a cause.”

— J.A. London

“The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters…

— Wilkie Collins

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“The answer, he believed, is that we all seek a cause beyond ourselves.”

— Atul Gawande

“The burden of mankind is very heavy: When a cosmic or an earth-based disaster hits us in this chaotic universe, He must not only…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars…

— Anne Frank

“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There, the sublime, unreachable mysteries of the Universe are haggled over by poor finite minds who cannot call their lives their own. There, nation…

— Marie Corelli

“all the works of mortal man have been doomed to mortality, and in the midst of things which have been destined to die, we…

— Seneca

“He thinks of all he has seen and learned: that the universe is indifferent to our human endeavors, that what gives our lives meaning…

— Kiana Davenport

“We’re all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It’s the way of things.”

— Juliet Marillier