Nature-of-man Quotes

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, ther...

Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by ...

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingen...

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you...

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boar...

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs ar...

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no ma...

If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is...

I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am igno...

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive t...

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is n...