Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
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.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
