Nature of man Quote by Karl R. Popper

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge…

— Samuel Johnson

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“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

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Man has tended to make himself the measure of all things. But man’s measure is too tiny to comprehend My majestic vastness. That is…

— Sarah Young

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato

“Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine…

— N.D. Wilson

“We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk…

— Henry David Thoreau