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  • I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Race Quotes
  • You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes
  • The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes
  • A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Light Quotes