Men Quotes - Page 438

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

The free man is a warrior.

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.