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“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.”
Source: A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth
“A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.”
“A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God's care for him.”
“A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.”
“A man of dreams does not mind spending sleepless nights working hard because he knows there will come a time when he will receive a better reward. He sacrifices his comfort for greater impact.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.”
Source: Collected Works
“A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.”
“A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery.”
“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A man of fear can only hate. Love is a state of harmony; hate is a state of illness. Hate is illness, and love is health and wholeness. When you hate, your ego is fulfilled. The
ego can exist only if you hate.
In love, the ego has to disappear. In love, you are no longer separate. Love helps you to be in harmony with others. If you are too identified with the ego, then hate becomes easy, and love becomes difficult.
Love needs courage, because it needs the sacrifice of the ego. Only those who are ready to become nobody, to become a silence, a nothingness, are able to receive the gift of love.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.”
“A man of fifty is responsible for his face.”
“A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.”
Source: The Business of Life
“A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.”
“A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?”
Source: Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes: Berlin manuscripts (1818-1830)
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”
“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.”
“A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.”
“A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.”
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
“A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“A man of God doesn't lead a woman through dictatorship, he leads her through a partnership guided by God.”
Source: He Who Finds A Wife: A Man's Guide To Finding The Woman & Love He Desires
“A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.”
Source: Killosophy
“A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.”
Source: The Handwriting on the Wall
“A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind -- regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every temple or divine mansion built to glorify THE CREATOR -- as an extension of the temple closest to his home, regardless of its shape, size, or color. A man who truly recognizes and knows God can see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.”
“A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind - regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every temple or divine mansion built to glorify the Creator - as an extension of the temple closest to his home, regardless of its shape, size, or color. A man who truly recognizes and knows God can see God in all things.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.”
“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”
“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”
“A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.”
“A man of integrity is a man of value.”
“A man of integrity might lose everything he had, but he could still be counted on.”
Source: Marrying Mr. Wrong
“A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.”
“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.”
“A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.”
Source: Separate Reality
“A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country...”
Source: A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
“A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”
Source: Separate Reality
“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.”
“A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.”
“A man of leisure, Rupert’s sweet life of polo, yachting, poker parties, lunches, galas, and dinner parties did not include earning one’s way. Just a weekend fling I didn't have a dowry of $45,000,000 in euros.
How Henry James!”
Source: Vintage Women