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- The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a…
- A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh…
- No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate…
- Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
- What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
- Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
- The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
- In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the…
- In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
- Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
- Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
- One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and…
- If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect…
- The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
- Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking…
- To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a…
- The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity…
- Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things…
- I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to…
- Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly…
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their…
- Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of…
- The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,…
- Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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