Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet comm...
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover...
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day, every...
I am only human, although I regret it.
For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human dress.Songs of InnocenceCruelty has a human heartAnd jealousy a human face,Terror the human form divi...
Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial."From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.
Space is limitless, and so is our appetite to master it.
In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the...
For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impac...
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
Bad people take minimal time to coincide their objectives, but good people take for ever to put faith in each others intents.
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
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