Quotes for All
I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to … Read more
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why? Emily Carr
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation. E. F. Schumacher
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation! Frances Power Cobbe
As I’m never going to be old, I’m glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness. Douglas Coupland
The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you. Dossie Easton
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I … Read more
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. Denis Diderot