The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.
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.
I am a man nothing human is alien to me.
For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.
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.
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...
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
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