It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being an echo, not a voice.
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings. . .
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
To curse grief is easier than to bless it, but to do so is to fall back into the point of view of the earthly, the carnal, the natural man. By what has Christianity subdued the world if not by the apotheosis of grief, by its marvelous transmutation of suf.
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