The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
—Blaise Pascal
Remember that the same spirit that lives in you lives in every other person, and therefore don’t just love but honor as holy the soul of every person as much as your own.
—Leo Tolstoy
The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
—Sigmund Freud
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can’t control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
—Sigmund Freud
Persons who hold the same view of sin and retribution that Jesus held, to such persons alone, the beauty of Jesus is without flaw.
—J. Gresham Machen
Truly good people don’t expect rewards for their good deeds. They forget about them the way a person forgets about his breathing.
—Leo Tolstoy
You can kill a person who speaks the truth, but once spoken the truth remains.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you simply talk to a person and look clearly into his eyes, you’ll feel that he’s related to you and that you’ve known him for a long time. Why? Because that which gives us life is the same in you and in him and in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
—Sigmund Freud
By making our enemy small, mean, contemptible, comical, we take a roundabout route to getting for ourselves the enjoyment of vanquishing him, which the third person – who has gone to no effort – endorses with his laughter.
—Sigmund Freud
Those persons who have God for their Father have a Father who loves them much more than any earthly parent loves his child.
—Jonathan Edwards
If we suppose that Christ died without any absolute determination that any particular persons should be saved by his death, we must suppose that he undertook to die when he was wholly at uncertainties about the success of his death.
—Jonathan Edwards
That such a person who was divine and so dear to the Father should suffer at all would have been a wonderful testimony of God’s hatred of sin. But specially it was so when Christ suffered so much.
—Jonathan Edwards
Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.
—John Locke
A person’s character is best revealed when he describes the character of another person.
—Taras Shevchenko
An ordinary person expects good or bad from the outside, and a thinking person expects that from within.
—Taras Shevchenko
The life of every person is a fairy tale written with the fingers of God.
—Taras Shevchenko
Nice privacy! Nothing in life can be sweeter, more charming than solitude, especially in the face of the smiling, blossoming beauty of Mother Nature. Under its sweet magical charm, a person involuntarily plunges into himself and sees God on earth, as the poet says.
—Taras Shevchenko
Amazing! A person resents the evil that comes from outside, from others, something that he cannot affect, but does not fight his own personal evil that is in his power to control.
—Taras Shevchenko
To educate a person intellectually, without raising him morally, means to grow a threat to society.
—Taras Shevchenko
When evil is committed, a person is afraid that people will know about it, he can still find a way to good. When, having done good, a person tries to make people know about it, he gives rise to evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
A stupid person does not become good, and a good person can easily become bad.
—Taras Shevchenko
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a good heart? He will use all his knowledge for evil.
—Taras Shevchenko
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko