Men Quotes - Page 867

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for thousands of years not only as a substance he prized and was willing to labour to obtain, but also as a generator of poetic and of mythic meaning. The contradictions it embodies only intensify its power and its links with experience of the sacred.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

I give the moment permanence.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?