Men Quotes - Page 96

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.