Posters
Wallpaper

black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Edgar Allan Poe Quote - I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Related Topics

Active Appreciation Effect Faith Happiness Human Hurt Man Perfection Wise

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Insane Writer
And I fell violently on my face.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Face One Liner Violent
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Fancy Insane Mad Wise
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Beauty Exquisite Imperfection Proportion Stranger
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Active Appreciation Effect Faith Happiness Human Hurt Man Perfection Wise
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Appearance High Indeed Jacket Madness Straight Time
Leave my loneliness unbroken.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Broken Leaving Loneliness One Liner
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Genius Imperfection Incomplete Silence True
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Death Die Poem Poetry Reading
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Envolve Fear Fraud Friendship Greed Imagination Poetry Religion
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Finding Possiblity Verse
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Convince One Liner Seek
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Intelligence Mad Madness Men Question Settlement
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Deceive Man Shame
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Color Dwell Grass Love Sun Togetherness Valley
A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Grammer Man Pure Wife

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes