T Quotes
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“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”
Source: The World As I See It
“The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.”
“The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.”
“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“The man who reproaches you is unfair;
You're a woman and not a saint.”
Source: Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
“The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.”
Source: Beasts of Gor: Gor
“The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.”
“The man who's a rebel weathers storms without cease / As though fighting with storm clouds will make them rain Peace.”
“The man who sacrifices the possible in search of the impossible is
a fool.”
“The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.”
“The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold”
“The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she is married to me? Or is she like Christ in spite of me? Has she shrunk from His likeness because of me? Do I sanctify her or hold her back? Is she a better woman because she is married to me?”
“The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”
Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle
“The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.”
“The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.”
“The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct”
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
“The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.”
“The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.”
Source: Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
“The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."”
“The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.”
Source: Selections and Essays
“The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.”
“The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'”
“The man who seeks comfort will find chains; the one who embraces struggle will find wings.”
Source: If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.
“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.”
“The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.”
Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.”
“The man who seeks the truth may not be the man who finds the truth at the end of his effort! But the reason we respect and love him is because he is seeking the truth!”
“The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.”
“The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.”
“The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.”
Source: Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values
“The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.”
Source: Dune: House Corrino
“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.”
“The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.”
“The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.”
“The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets.”
“The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.”
Source: Killosophy
“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
“The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.”
“The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.”
Source: Above Life's Turmoil
“The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.”
“The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.”
“The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.”