“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
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“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man”
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come”
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense”
“Every man's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers”
“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”
“Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul”
“Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think”
“The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man”
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”
“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man”
“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done”
“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”
“Hunger makes a thief of any man”
“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women”
“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more”
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”