Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
