The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.