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Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.
It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.
Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.
You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.
The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.
No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.