Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A human being is a deciding being.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
