Quotes 61 till 80 of 351.
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3 -
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Cosmos (1980) -
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
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