Quotes
Quotes about Man
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
One by one in many countries they break through the ice of fear.. cups of crocuses .. stand up in caucuses .. East to West from Africa to the Caucusus and state their eternal allegiance to the Creator Sun.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.
Villain and he be many miles asunder.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]
In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humansâ you know the answer before I say itâ that's not good.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame.
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife.
