The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Man
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside.
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.