As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.
No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the...
They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization.
A wolf does not think like a human.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]
However, he was happy. He felt he was conquering nature. He laughed aloud. He felt he was stronger than the elements. In this type of weather animals hid in their holes and did not come out. He was ou...
The human soul is a lonely thing
My mistake was in ever opening the books.
Man always gets less than he demands from life.
But the world now seemed changed. He went about in it with greater confidence, with a feeling of prowess that had not been his in the days before the battle. He had looked upon life in a more ferociou...
The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.