The sick man himself had wasted greatly. All the life in him seemed to have taken refuge in the still brilliant eyes.[Le malade avait considérablement maigri. Ses yeux, où la vie semblait s’être réfugiée, étaient restés brillants.]
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The public use of man’s reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among men.[Der öffentliche Gebrauch seiner Vernunft muß jederzeit frei sein, und der allein kann Aufklärung unter Menschen zu Stande bringen.]
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other painted.
The only mistake that a man invested with authority and power cannot make even once in his lifetime is to issue an order which he is not sure will be carried out.[El único error que no puede cometer ni una sola vez en toda su vida un hombre investido de autoridad y mando es impartir una orden que no esté seguro de que será cumplida.]
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.
The miserable’s name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.[Le misérable s’appelle l’homme; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.]
The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.[Es bedurfte der Vermittlung der Schlange: das Böse kann den Menschen verfuhren, aber nicht Mensch werden.]
The measure of a man is not his intelligence. It is not how high he rises in the freak establishment. The measure of a man is this: how swiftly can he react to another person’s need? And how much of himself can he give?
