Homo Quotes - Page 2

Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but his chief business in life is to pay.

Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.

The race of man while sheep in credulity are wolves for conformity.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.

If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.