Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
The Fact That Man Knows Right From Wrong Proves His Intellectual Superiority To Other Creature
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Miscellaneous Collections
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual
superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves
his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), What Is Man? (1906)
Related:
What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?
dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must. -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)...
Say the report is exaggerated. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) -- To Evening Sun correspondent, London, April 3, 1906
-- re: Report of his death...
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
What is the chief end of man? - to get rich. In what way?
dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must....
Man is a religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal.
He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them....
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal that has the True Religion -- several of them.
He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight....
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
The human being, like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys -- yet he has left it out of his heaven.
-- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)...
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to ma
he invented them. Among higher animals there is no trace of them....