To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.