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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!"
Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.
Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.