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)
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....
