The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes! There is Muhammad, the...

…Mankind is not a race of noble savages – but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch…

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and...

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary… She had no fear of the shadows; her sole...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,the lost brother, the twin —for him did we leave our mothers,deny our sisters, over and over?did we invent him, conjure himover the charring log,nights, late, in the snowbound cabindid we...

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several;...

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?

To što mi radimo da bismo si tobože zajamčili život, radi i noj kad gurne glavu u pijesak da ne vidi kako će ga ubiti. Samo što smo mi gori od noja, jer zbog neizvjesnog...

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we’ve earned a little annihilation.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.

nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until...

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist’s responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of...

When we’re in the story, when we’re part of it, we can’t know the outcome. It’s only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And...

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

The ordinary had been always ”undermined”. But the common man or woman, were always, capable of doing the extraordinary. Wherewith that a calamity in the soul were to purge a moment in time, he or...

We are God’s holy people.

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing...

There is beauty in the soul of every man.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison.

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it...

Women is a beautiful language every man should learn to speak !

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then...

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so...

Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not...

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

Children are the greatest blessing from God.

Deux choses donnent du sens à la vie : les livres et l’amour.

It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose – electronic (even though that wasn’t for her) or printed, or audio – is...

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

The atmosphere was electrified by the orgasm with which the strong and secure are overcome when confronted with the visible frailty of someone worse off than themselves.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my...