Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs.
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Jostein Gaarder
A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)
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William J. Federer
Suffering introduces a man to his soul.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Why, you are a man of heart! "" Sometimes, " replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.
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Jules Verne
Yes, yes, I see it all! – an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall...
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Miguel De Unamuno
More Quotes By John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of...
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
