A Quotes
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“A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.”
Source: Essays in the Public Philosophy
“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”
“A man who has many friends is like a dog not minding his many fleas until some turn and bite him.”
Source: We Fight Monsters: Wisdom and inspiration that speak to the warrior's soul
“A man who has mastered all the books in the world may still be ignorant if he fails to connect this bookish knowledge with the real world.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
“A man who has never known peace.”
“A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.”
“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
“A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”
“A man who has no discipline to keep a deaf ear to words birthed out of anger, jealousy and envy will spend all his life fighting a defeated war.”
“A man who has no discipline to keep a deaf ear to words born out of anger, jealousy, and envy will spend all his life fighting a defeated war.”
“A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!”
“A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.”
“A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)
“A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.”
“A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.”
“A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.”
“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.”
“A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)
“A man who has not known meditation lives in the dark night of the soul. He has not experienced the inner light. And if you are full of darkness inside your life is bound to remain miserable, because your actions will come out of your darkness. Your actions are bound to be wrong. Your life will be that of
stumbling from one error to another error.
People carry mountains of misery, because they have not tried to bring any light into their inner source. And it is easy to do that,
but people have just never been told to go into themselves.
The society, the establishment and the vested interests are against it, because they don't want people who are full of inner light. The
politicians, the people in power and the rich are all against it, because a man who has his own inner light cannot be manipulated, controlled and exploited.
He will always do the right things. He has his own intelligence, and he is ready to live according to his own inner light. Even a single moment of freedom is more valuable than to sacrifice his whole life, because in that single moment he comes to know God.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”
“A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.”
“A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.”
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
“A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for”
“A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.”
Source: The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon
“A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works
“A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.”
Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic
“A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.”
“A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.”
“A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.”
“A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.”
“A Man who has the confidence to not feel the need to defend his point of view and at the same time possess the openness to accept other's point of view, without being judgemental, yet managing
to stay true to his convictions - Is the Man of Real Substance!”
“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.”
Source: From a writer's notebook
“A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.”
“A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938
“A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.”
“A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.”
“A man who hates always believes himself justified. He never hates anything that he believes to be good. He thinks he is being just, therefore, in his hatred, but the hatred itself forms a very strong claim that will follow him throughout his lives, until he learns that only the hatred itself is the destroyer.”
“a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”
“A man who hides behind The Shield is safe. A man who raises The Shield is the Hero.”
Source: Unique
“a man who hides you
is a coward”
Source: Algedonic