Famous quotes containing the words cunning and/or man:
“Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)