"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it……" — Karel Capek
"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."
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38 Quotes by Karel Capek
Karel Capek has 38 quotes on this site.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to…
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You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with…
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Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything…
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no…
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The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and…
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the…
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that…
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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More Detestable Quotes
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll…
— Charles Bukowski
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes…
— Stephen Charnock
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as…
— Confucius
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of…
— William Ralph Inge
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less…
— William E. Gladstone
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Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal…
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and…
— Don King
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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