Quote of the Day by Guy de Maupassant: “A human being—what is a human being? Everything and nothing.” The idea sounds contradictory until the rest of the quote reveals what Maupassant means. A person may be physically small and insignificant beside the universe, yet the human mind can observe, remember, understand and recreate enormous parts of the world. Through thought, memory and knowledge, each person becomes a kind of inner universe. Maupassant’s reflection remains relevant because it asks a simple question with difficult consequences: how much of the world do we actually carry within ourselves?
