I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.

Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe read more

Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this read more

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.