We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
I don't think anybody is perfect.
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
