It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Tag Archives: Man
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.” ~Albert Camus
Falling In Love
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six andContinue reading “Falling In Love”
“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.” ~Immanuel Kant
Two People
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” ~ William James
“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?” ~James Madison
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s lnability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the cruelest animal. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hubert Reeves Quote
Astrophysicist – Born: July 13, 1932
Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Power
Born: May 29, 1917 – Died: November 22, 1963
Quote ~ Ansel Adams
Man
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. -Gertrude Stein
Ultimate Measure
Born: January 15, 1929 – Died: April 4, 1968
Albert Camus Quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Wordables
T.S. Eliot On Libraries
Wordables
Albert Camus On Happiness
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Wednesday Morning Quote
Monday Morning Quote
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” – Albert Camus http://www.bquot.es/s/1227
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Friday Afternoon Quote
“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.” – Wilbur Wright http://www.bquot.es/s/2388
My Two Cents
My opinion from a straight man; A woman wants to marry another woman, go for it. A man wants to marry another man, go for it. For people who keep saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman, fine. But don’t be spouting the venom and bullshit by putting the Gays andContinue reading “My Two Cents”
Thursday Evening Quote
Brainy Quote
Aldous Huxley Quote
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough. – Aldous Huxley
Jack London Quote
“The simple function of man is to live, not just exist.” – Jack London
Quote
Every man’s memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
Bertrand Russell Quote
“It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.” – Bertrand Russell http://www.bquot.es/s/3113
Plato Quote
Creation
“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.” – Sigmund Freud ——- Maybe he’s right, maybe not. http://www.bquot.es/s/755
Margot Asquith Quote
“From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.” – Margot Asquith http://www.bquot.es/s/2015
Man
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound mind, discourse a clear man. Benjamin Franklin Quote Source: en.proverbia
Nature
Enjoying Life
Change
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“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.” Napoleon Hill
Challenge
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ” –Martin Luther King
Society
Man
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A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Possess
All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. — Osho
I would rather be ashes ……
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should be burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man isContinue reading “I would rather be ashes ……”
Drink
First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. — Japanese Proverb
If the bee disappears……
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Nature
I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress. — Ed Begley
After all, a homeless man …..
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is against him. — Jack Kerouac
Earth provides enough ….
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness
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Habit is habit,… – Mark Twain
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain
There is a great deal of truth… – Mahatma Gandhi
There is a great deal of truth in the saying that man becomes what he eats. The grosser the food, the grosser the body. -Mahatma Gandhi
“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten,…” – Buddha
“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.” -Buddha
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