Adventure Quote by Victor Hugo

“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the…

— Giambattista Vico

“I can think of no people more fragmented... Craftsmen you see, but no humans, thinkers, but no humans, priests, but no humans, lords and…

— Friedrich Holderlin

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a…

— Tom Hiddleston

“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

“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you cannot even…

— Alec Hutson

“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

“We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this…

— June Strong

“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the crimes of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Such beings inhabit the valley of unrest between life and death. They devour the living in a vain attempt to sway the hunger, the…

— Shimako Sato

“After a while he became disagreeably affected by the sight of the roadway thronged with vehicles and of the pavement crowded with men and…

— Joseph Conrad

“The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.”

— Émile Durkheim