Best quotes by Edgar Allan Poe on Man

Checkout quotes by Edgar Allan Poe on Man

  • I have no faith in human perfectability. 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
  • That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
    - Edgar Allan Poe
  • The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
    - Edgar Allan Poe
  • To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
    - Edgar Allan Poe
  • Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
    - Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    - Edgar Allan Poe