
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 130.
Source: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 315
Context: Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 130.
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III
Variant: Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
"The Conflict of Science and Tradition", p. 108
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Psychical Kinship
Draft of a preface in “Notebook 16”; Quoted in The Collected Works of J.M. Synge, vol. 1, Introduction (1962).
“A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.”
L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soi-même.
Book I, Ch. 39
Essais (1595), Book I
“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”
Source: The Dark Light Years
Source: Science and Imagination: Selected Papers, 1967, p. 110
“None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.”
Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)