Quotes about men
men immortal mortals
What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men. Heraclitus
men wish world
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
men firsts rate
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
men eggs earth
Man is on earth as in an egg.
men fire becoming
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished....
men atheism process
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
men glory mass
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
men spirituality divine
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
men rivers he-man
No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
men people wake-up
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos men are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.
men eggs giving
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles. Henry Ward Beecher
men tolerance way
Let every man come to God in his own way.
men rich-or-poor doe
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
men self pieces
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
men milk wealth
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
men thinking long
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
men bribery has-beens
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
men fruit world
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
men laughing abuse
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
men vortex prosperity
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
men sea shining
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
men doubt good-work
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
men common-sense genius
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
men world miserable
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
men pyramids sky
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
men gold mountain
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
men tin stones
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
men doors trying
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
men land funeral
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
men forever heaven
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
men mind tasks
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
men power expression
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
men conceited self
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.