For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.
To vain men, other people are admirers.
You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole world.
One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
The greatness of a craft consists firstly in how it brings comradeship to men.
There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity for where will the stone go, once it is quarried.
To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
What do we mean by setting a man free You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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