It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
I am a man nothing human is alien to me.
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
The voice is a second signature.
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
I am mortal born to love and to suffer.
For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid...