Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

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.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

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.

For nothing human foreign was to him.

For nothing human foreign was to him.

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen read more

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.