Quotes
Quotes about Man
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
The reality of life is that your perceptionsâ right or wrongâinfluence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.
The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason. [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt: Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
