Nature of man Quote by Sándor Márai

“Furthermore, as long as the world shall last, there will always be people who, either for the sake of peace or from an unquiet…

— Lev Shestov

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“#297. "...the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls.”

— Born Of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon

“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile activity, And…

— Anonymous

“As I have always both offered and desired peace so that I might devote myself to quieter and more useful studies, and have stormed…

— Martin Luther

“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds than mine…

— Steve Earle

“The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof…

— Thomas Paine

“Then our minds go through an entire revolution. We are no more troubled by anger and hatred, no more bitten by envy and ambition,…

— Kaiten Nukariya