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  • What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes
  • A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Jail Quotes
  • Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Men Quotes , Intelligent Quotes
  • This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Gone Quotes
  • What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Ice Quotes
  • The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
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    Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes