Active Quote by Edward Gibbon

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him…

— Cormac McCarthy

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many…

— Helen Keller

“Since [man's] true nature has been lost, anything can become his nature: similarly, true good being lost, anything can become his true good.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend…

— Karlfried Graf Durckheim

“history shows human beings to be the most dangerous of nature’s show-offs. Inimical to each other, given over to greed and insatiable appetites. Nature…

— Ruskin Bond

“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

— Blaise Pascal

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

No matter how stronger and harder a man appears to the outside world in the lifes challenges, but he still remains the weakest and…

— Anuj Somany

“Instead of destroying and appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world.”

— Adalbert De Vogue