Quotes
<< Prev Next >>
A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old� And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing the same man century after century.
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.
The Corrections
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Sexus
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays