W Quotes
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“When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.”
“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”
“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”
“When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.”
“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called failing as a natural quality. The more grave and important the defect, the more urgent is the need to ennoble it. From sublime to ridiculous is only one step, and an ineradicable vice in strong men is always rechristened a virtue.”
Source: All Things are Possible
“When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.”
“When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.”
Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King
“When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force”
Source: Love
“When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see that money has no place in state functions, and, the money power being entirely in his own hands, he will easily master the state and clearly define its services. Thus money must be seen as the means of mastery of all economic and political problems. Until we have mastered money we shall not master any of our problems. Not money, but a false money system, is the root of all evil.”
“When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.”
Source: The Plumed Serpent
“When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.”
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.”
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.”
“When man is at peace with man, how much lighter than a feather is the heaviest of metals in his hand!”
Source: A Sentimental Journey
“When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“When man is under the ground;
there is no place where
they are mentioned better.
When man is over the ground;
there is no place where
they appreciate things better.”
Source: a Painting a Poem
“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”
Source: The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
“When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.”
“When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.”
“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.”
“When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.”
“When man meets himself upon the reflexion of the mirror, it is always advisable to ask the question "Who are you?". If an unsatisfactory answer comes forth, then one must delve into the far reaches of Self and understand why he failed to answer this simple, yet transcending question.”
“When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!”
Source: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“When man no longer regards himself as karmic he ceases to be so. That’s the end of karma right there – when people stop believing in it, stop taking the idea seriously, stop treating it as real. Hinduism and Buddhism are total nonsense because they are predicated on karma, which is an illusion! They themselves say so!”
Source: This Quintessence of Dust: If Humans Aren’t Dust, What Are They?
“When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.”
“When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far down below / on his bed of dirt from grave / from his dank and silent cave / he watches you yet has no sight / he taketh you away at night”
Source: Slenderman, Slenderman - And Other Terrifying Tales
“When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the "facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revealing the "divine energies" and the "angelic" state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.”
Source: Science and Civilization in Islam
“When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
“When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night and even the terrestial seasons...But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California.”
“When man struggles with himself, a treasure is waiting to be discovered.”
Source: The Incarnate
“When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his own humanity, which is all that he does in Aristostle's ethics, nor he did merely compromise his destiny by an error, as it happens in the Plathonic myths; he brought disorder into the divine order, and presents the unhappy spectacle of a being in revolt against Being. [...] Every time a man sins he renews this act of revolt and prefers himself to God; in thus preferring himself, he separates himself from God; and in separating himself, he deprives himself of the sole end in which he can find beatitude and by that very fact condemns himself to misery.”
“When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.”
“When man to man shall be friend and brother.”
Source: The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems
“When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.”
“When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace.”
Source: In my own words
“When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.”
“When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.”
“When man walks on water, then you will know that plastic has no controls.”
“When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.”
“When man was created it was not for this purpose
To become taken over and be utterly worthless”
Source: Like A Box Of Chocolates
“When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.”
“When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”
“When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.”
“When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.”
“When managers overdo micromanaging of others, they probably hired the wrong people or failed to give them a clear idea of what each one is to accomplish. I prefer to train employees to be self-managers, just as in an orchestra each performer knows his or her role without being micromanaged.”
“When managers use ESG frameworks to inform choices, risk is inherently minimized.”
“When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with faith.”