Homo Quotes - Page 2

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.

Lord Chesterfield

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

Marcus Aurelius

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

Finley Peter Dunne

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning

Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Dean William R. Inge

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

Dean William R. Inge

Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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 being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.

Yuval Noah Harari