What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
-
Similar:
| Quote 1153 | Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. I... |
| Quote 11985 | One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose g... |
| Quote 3284 | Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If i... |
| Quote 7429 | Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. |
| Quote 3994 | Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. |
| Quote 5279 | Nature herself makes the wise man rich. - Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Quote 1713 | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. |
| Quote 5960 | Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond l... |
| Quote 13892 | The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies h... |