“How resistant we are to the logic, and to all the evidence, that those who delight to tattle with us about others, will tattle delightedly with others about us.”
Source: Mrs Clay: The Austen Expert's Companion to 'Persuasion'
“You're like ordinary mortals in fearing everything, you're like immortals in coveting everything.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“Without a sense of humor, you are blind to so much in this world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“So treibt das Bedürfnis der Gesellschaft, aus der Leere und Monotonie des eigenen Innern entsprungen, die Menschen zueinander; aber ihre vielen widerwärtigen Eigenschaften und unerträglichen Fehler stoßen sie wieder voneinander ab.”
Source: Parerga Und Paralipomena: Kleine Philosophische Schriften, Fuenfter Band
“wherever you turn there is Allah's purpose”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“We humans, believe we know it all. When you think about the vastness of the universe, you begin to realise we know nothing other than the limitations of our own environment.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
Porque, finalmente, ¿qué es el hombre en la naturaleza? Una nada frente al infinito, un todo frente a la nada, un medio entre nada y todo. Infinitamente alejado de comprender los extremos, el fin de las cosas y su principio le están invenciblemente ocultos en un secreto impenetrable, igualmente incapaz de ver la nada de donde ha sido sacado y el infinito en que se halla sumido.”
Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works: Part 48 Harvard Classics
“They may not appreciate our point of view. We might frighten them, or bore them, or make them uncomfortable. This does not mean we should go away.”
Source: Noumenon
“It’s easy to forget that people from the past weren’t the two-dimensional black-and-white photos or line drawings you might encounter in some dry textbooks. They weren’t just gray-faced guys in top hats. They were living, breathing, joking, burping people, who could be happy or sad, funny or boring, cool or the lamest people you ever met in your life. They had no idea they were living in the past. They all thought they were living in the present.”
Source: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“Instead of modifying their beliefs, institutions, politics, and property systems to fit their environment, humans enter habitats and alter them to suit their cultures.”
Source: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America