| "I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.'" »Joel Rosenberg |
| "America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese." »David Riesman |
| "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." »Albert Camus |
| "Man without religion is the creature of circumstances." »Augustus Hare |
| "The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes |
| "What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser |
| "Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed." »Tom Clancy |
| "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey |
| "Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are." »John Ruskin |
| "As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present." »Maitri Upanishads |
| "I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." »Stephan Grellet |
| "Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported." »Epictetus |
| "We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." »John Stuart Mill |
| "The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying." »Marcel Proust |
| "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." »Mark Twain |
| "A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad" »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." »Erich Fromm |
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