Hugh > Hugh's Quotes

“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
― Karl Popper

“While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.”
― Karl R. Popper

“Love - why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at 75 and her at 71, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.”
― Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey