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“We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.”

“Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.”

Men Humans Culture Conditions Weakness Weakness Of Man

Book:The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

“We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Matter Reason Reality Values Justice Weakness Aspect Appearance Manners Human Mind Bias Superficial Disagreeable Exterior Gilded Bad Manners

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”

Knows World Humans Character Nature Half Strength Human Nature Arms Weakness Blue Instance Poison Pockets Verses Grotesque Vigilant Resolute Strength And Weakness Stockings Haughty

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Mistake Kindness Weakness Faults This Life Decent One Mistake Kindness For Weakness

Author:Jeremy Piven

“It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.”

Mind Humans Looks Humanity Found Wonder Mankind Human Nature Weakness Strongest Disgusting Inconsistency

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”

Humans Principles Human Nature Pride Spring Lows Weakness Negative Ancestry

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.”

Men Humans Seems Age Faces Universe Weakness Size Dust Encounters Sublime

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.”

Believe Humans Persons I Believe Cry Discipline Weakness I Believe In Right Person

Author:John Galliano

“It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.”

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.”

“Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.”

Humans Said Done Age Suffering Race Clear Weakness Fingers Wounds Human Race Iron Physicians Pilgrimage

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)