"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Man, Study

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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman."

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"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."

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"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice."

Justice

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

Gold

"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

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"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."

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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Explore more quotes by Richard Burton

"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman."

"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."

"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."

"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."

"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."