T Quotes
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“The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.”
“The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.”
“The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.”
Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals
“The man of self-knowledge transcends life and death and lives in the ecstasy of divine consciousness.”
“The man of self-knowledge transcends life and death and lives in the ecstasy of Supreme consciousness.”
“The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.”
“The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.”
“The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.”
“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”
Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
“The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.”
Source: Praktischer Idealismus: Adel, Technik, Pazifismus
“The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.”
“The man of the house was at the moment something less than a man. Or perhaps he was only what any man eventually might become when guided by no hand but his own.”
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year
“The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.”
“The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.”
“The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.”
“The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.”
“The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.”
Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
“The man of true compassion serves without judgement.”
“The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.”
Source: Scientific Writings
“The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart.”
“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”
“The man of understanding finds everything laughable.”
“The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.”
“The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.”
“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.”
Source: The Analects
“The man of wisdom is the man of years.”
Source: The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life of the author [signed G.W.].
“The Man of Wrath says all women love churchyards. He is fond of sweeping assertions, and is sometimes curiously feminine in his tendency to infer a general principle from a particular instance.”
Source: The Solitary Summer
“The Man of Wrath says he never met a young woman who spent her money that way before; I remarked that it must be nice to have an original wife; and he retorted that the word original hardly described me, and that the word eccentric was the one required. Very well, I suppose I am eccentric, since even my husband says so; but if my eccentricities are of such a practical nature as to result later in the biggest cauliflowers and tenderest lettuce in Prussia, why then he ought to be the first to rise up and call me blessed.”
Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“The man on foot who knows his time is much wiser than the one who runs on horseback, ignoring the time and the direction he wishes to take.”
“The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.”
“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”
“The man on TV said Americans are good people you know but they only vote one of two ways with their hearts or with their heads and let’s hope it’s not too late let’s hope it’s not too late but thank the Lord this time they came to their senses and voted with their heads.
But it didn’t seem to me like they voted with their heads. It seemed like they voted with their fangs.”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.
I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle.”
Source: Changes
“The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.”
Source: 1844-1881
“The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.”
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies
“The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.”
“The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.”
“The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.”
“The man or woman who is born of God, who is regenerate, simply does not and cannot continue-abide-in a life of sin. They may backslide temporarily, but if they are born of God they will come back. It is as certain as that they have been born again. It is the way to test whether or not someone is born again.”
“The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.”
“The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.”
“The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.”
Source: Inspiration & motivation
“The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use?" - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation.”
Source: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”
“The man raised his glass, 'To you!'
Can't you think of a wittier toast?'
Something was beginning to irritate him about the girl's game. Now sitting face to face with her, he realized it wasn't just the words which were turning her into a stranger, but that her whole persona had changed, the movements of her body and her facial expression, and that she unpalatably and faithfully resembled that type of woman whom he knew so well and for whom he felt some aversion.
And so (holding his glass in his raised hand), he corrected his toast: 'O.K., then I won't drink to you, but to your kind, in which are combined so successfully the better qualities of the animal and the worse aspects of the human being.”
Source: Laughable Loves
“The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.”
Source: Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work An