What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order..
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it'….
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary….
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in….
There's always something to talk about..
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it..
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed..
For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in m….
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burni….
... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else..
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls..
I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't give a da….
Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they ….
And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own..
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way..
No one is content with his own lot..
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busie….
The public makes a hit..
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?.
Watching something is nothing like doing it..