Mankind

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