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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I am for people. I can’t help it.