A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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?
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
A human being is a deciding being.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.