Mans Search For Quotes & Sayings

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. — Kenneth Koch

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering. — Ann Coulter

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him ... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness. — Ludwig Von Mises

All thoughts are prey to some beast — Bill Callahan

If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do. — Julie Morgenstern

Well, I guess [2001: A Space Odyssey] legitimized [science fiction], particularly for people who looked down on science fiction; you know, the intelligentsia. My definition of the intelligentsia: someone who's educated beyond their intelligence. — Arthur C. Clarke

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life. — Viktor E. Frankl

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. — Jonathan Culver

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl