Nature of man Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day…

— Emma Wildes

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do,…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that perfection is…

— Benjamin Constant

“Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have…

— Anonymous

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the…

— John Williams

“The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time, they're mocked…

— Philip Pullman

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal

“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of…

— T. Greenwood