Quotes about men
men blood awakening
Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments. Alfred Rosenberg
men enemy different
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues. Alfred North Whitehead
men feelings useless
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
men mind passionate
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.
men thinking society
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
men boredom earth
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
men soul speech
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls
men long may
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.
men order want
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
men extravagance safe
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
men dying bed
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
men doe
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
men support truth-is
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
men history historical
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole. Alfred Kazin
men class use
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us. Alfred Korzybski
men coins currents
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. Alfred Lord Tennyson
men dwarves together
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
men together causes
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together.
men gray
Oh good gray head which all men knew!
men
Man's word is God in man.
men years long
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
men house soul
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
men branches conservative
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
men hunting games
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
men light world
This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
men self may
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
men
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
men dust way
All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.
men blood light
France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.
men cups born
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
men vex want
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
men dies happy-man
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
men years mind
And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.