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Men Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art…
- For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has…
- There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an…
- That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his…
- If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because…
- The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I…
- Man's Place in Nature.
- No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply…
- The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of…
- The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty…
- What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy…
- A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
- If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed…
- Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
- Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
- I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the…
- I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense…
- Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does…
- What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
- The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put…
- Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
- The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle