Quotes
Quotes about Man
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
What is a hero without love for mankind.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
