"If a man eats much, he doesn’t become healthier than a man who is satisfied only with necessary things. The same thing is with a scholar. A scholar isn’t a man, who reads much, but a man, who reads with a utility."
Aristippus
"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
Immanuel Kant
"The gods regretted soon that they created a person. We did the same. People regretted that they created the gods."
Pythagoras
"Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Men’s actions are derived from the opinions they of the good or evil, which from those actions rebound unto themselves."
Thomas Hobbes
"Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
Albert Camus
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together."
the Dalai Lama
"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."
Blaise Pascal
"For men are not equal: thus speaks justice."
Friedrich Nietzsche