Quote by Victor Hugo

“Many times man looks and doesn't see, other times he hears and doesn't understand, and this is serious. Now, when this intellectual obscurity reaches…

— Frederico Rochaferreira

“thus it is that egoists have always the last word; having posited at the start that their resolution is unshakeable, the more susceptible the…

— Marcel Proust

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

— Stuart Wilde

“The sacred word: EGO”

— Ayn Rand

“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse a conscience…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We…

— Kenneth Rexroth

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

— Ernest Shackleton

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

— Sir Fulke Greville

“Thus, we tend to think of Us as noble, loyal, and composed of distinctive individuals whose failings are due to circumstance. Thems, in contrast,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Every institution of our day, the family, the State, our moral codes, sees in every strong, beautiful, uncompromising personality a deadly enemy; therefore every…

— Various