No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent Affections constitute the perfection of human nature.
Whatever you are by nature keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man to the woman; straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think. Letter (9 October 1918)
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the Divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race sex religion ancestry age. Human rights are indivisible!
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
Chaos of thought and passion all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth in endless error hurled The glory jest and riddle of the world.
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things which are Gods. One would like to add: Give unto man things which are mans; give man his freedom and personality his rights and religion.
For mercy has a human heart pity a human face and love the human form divine and peace the human dress.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
It will generally be found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short.
Man is the measure of all things.
I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.
We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent Affections constitute the perfection of human nature.
Whatever you are by nature keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesars; and unto God the things which are Gods.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Housekeeping aint no joke.
My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Our humanity is a poor thing except for the divinity that stirs within us.
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
HUMANITY n. The human race collectively exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
Ill walk where my own nature would be leading It vexes me to choose another guide.
To a woman the house is life militant; to a man it is life in repose.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries across the oceans across the mountains across the prairies because we are made of sugar candy.
Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and Im not sure about the universe.
The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago … had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man to the woman; straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think. Letter (9 October 1918)
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the Divinity itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race sex religion ancestry age. Human rights are indivisible!
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love ones neighbor.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man and I hate people like that!
In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer.
At the worst a house unkempt cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that whats left will be human.
Chaos of thought and passion all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth in endless error hurled The glory jest and riddle of the world.
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things which are Gods. One would like to add: Give unto man things which are mans; give man his freedom and personality his rights and religion.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man.
The human mind always makes progress but it is a progress in spirals.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation sustained enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
I am a man; I think nothing human is alien to me Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.