Human, All Too Human Quotes

Therefore he gives man hope, in reality it is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Women can enter into friendship with a man perfectly well; but in order to maintain it the aid of a little physical antipathy is perhaps required.

Young people love what is interesting and exceptional, indifferent whether it is truth or falsehood. Riper minds love what is interesting and extraordinary when it is truth. Matured minds, finally, love truth even in those in whom it appears plain and simple and is found tiresome by ordinary people, because they have observed that truth is in the habit of giving utterance to its highest intellectual verities with all the appearance of simplicity.

Whoever has not got a good father should procure one.

Whoever has driven men to fury against himself has also gained a party in his favour.

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

When art arrays itself in the most shabby material it is most easily recognised as art.

We sometimes remain faithful to a cause merely because its opponents never cease to be insipid.

We often contradict an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it is expressed that is unsympathetic to us.

There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religions.

There are people who wish to make human life harder for no other reason than to be able afterwards to offer men their life-alleviating recipes their Christianity, for example.