Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

“These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with…

— Baruch Spinoza

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“It's strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”

— Bob Sorge

“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.”

— Xenophon

“There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they…

— Anonymous

“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“As down the centuries, a few men stand in lonely rectitude that we may look and say, there is a human race behind us.”

— Ayn Rand

“that the truth often lies below the surface, and a man may be a great deal more than his most easily caricatured characteristics”

— Salman Rushdie