Quotes about men
men divinity rays
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind. Ludwig van Beethoven
men faces admiration
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
men tree
I love a tree more than a man.
men world cognitive-therapy
The depressed man lives in a depressed world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
men two fool
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
men events duration
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
men
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
men light genius
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man -- but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
men thinking views
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
men world microcosm
Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
men talking credit
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. Lowell Thomas
men doe prosperity
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. Lucan
men anticipation
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
men giving poverty
Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
men names shadow
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
men heaven blind
How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
men littles may
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
men greatness puppets
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet. Lu Xun
men funeral sparks
If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.
men past heaven
Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world! Let those who want to ascend to heaven do so! Let those whose souls want to leave their bodies expire quickly! The earth today should be inhabited by man with a firm hold on the present, a firm hold on the earth.
men way earth
I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
men existential horror
Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.
men errors spheres
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good. Luc de Clapiers
men careers vanity
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
men vices sensible
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
men intelligent doe
There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
men advice desire
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
men doe wealth
A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.
men office mediocrity
Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.
men luxury giving
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
men knows judged
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.
men weakness virtuous
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
men great-success projects
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.