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“the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.”

Men Desire Religious Common He Man Type Philosophical Rose Seeking Pessimism Cynical Ashes Sneer

Author:Georgia Harkness

“Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.”

Men Has Beens Able Causes He Man Philosophical Latin

Book:The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index

Source: The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index

“The man that hath no music in himself”

Men Music He Man Philosophical Musical Venice Merchants Inspirational Music Power Of Music Merchant Of Venice Stratagem Sound And Music Shylock Merchant Of Venice Famous

Author:William Shakespeare

“It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.”

Men Writing Has Beens Said Forever He Man Philosophical Live Forever

Author:Tina Fey

“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”

Men He Man Philosophical Renounce

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.”

“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”

Men Life Action Risk He Man Wise Words Philosophical Urges

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.”

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”

Men Humans States Character Grows He Man Philosophical Pregnancy Plato

Author:Plato

“We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.”

Ifs Men Real Philosophy Use Differences Principles Tree Conditions He Man Function Philosophical This Life Grass Adapted Basic Principles Tree Of Life Old Trees

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi