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“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Self God Names Arms Lays Endless Command Deception Grain Self Deception

Author:Carl Jung

“Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.”

Men Doe Whole Body Young Process Members Authority Scientist Lays Profession Young Man

Author:Michael Polanyi

“If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.”

Ifs Men Littles Two Whole Feelings Light Youth Fairs Sight Lays Disappointment Spread Chiefs Dawn Life Time Rosy

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".”

Men World Waste Lays Islam

Author:Gregory Palamas

“We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.”

“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.”

Ifs Men May Long Doe Has Beens Said Remember Faces Forget Danger Ready Circumstances Long Time Lays Profit Sentiments

Author:Confucius

“The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.”

Men Firsts Sound Silence Down And Lays Spread Woods Thanks Temples Roof Solemn Lofty Framed Anthem Grove Vaults Supplication

Author:William C. Bryant

“All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.”

Men Evil Lays Constraints Evil Man

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc