"One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Men Quotes #Appearance Quotes #Impression Quotes

“This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.”

Source : Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)
“According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.”
“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.116, University of Oklahoma Press
“A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.”
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see...”

Source : "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.
“You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.”
“For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.”

Source : "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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