My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.