Man the Unknown
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“Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva”
Source: L'Homme, cet inconnu
“Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.”
“Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.”
“Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.”
“Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.”
Source: Man the Unknown
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
Source: Man the Unknown
“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.”
“The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.”
“Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.”
“Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”
“Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.”
“One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.”
“When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.”
“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.”
“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”
“Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.”
“In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.”
Source: Man the Unknown
“To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know”
“There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.”
Source: Man the Unknown
Source: Man the Unknown