Quotes of: Natural-man Keyword

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Robert Bly

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Gautama Buddha

Ip Man: [Facing the Northerner Ip Man adopts his combat stance with an unsettling mixture of mettle and serenity] Wing Chun, Ip Man.

Ip Man

Dutton Peabody: As for you, Old Man: go West and grow young with the country!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, dass der Wunsch unerfüllbar ist. Steht man aber plötzlich vor der Möglichkeit, dass der Wunschtraum Wirklichkeit wird, dann wünscht man sich nur no...

Die unendliche Geschichte

There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a m...

Michael Bassey Johnson

Manolo Ray: [referring to possible 3-5 years jail time] Hey, come on, man, it ain't that bad. Tony Montana: Hey, what the fuck you talkin', man? Manolo Ray: The jails in this country are like hotels, man. Tony Montana: You fuckin' kiddin' me, man? Ar...

Scarface

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

The Cruelest Month: Spring, Nature, and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics

‎"If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm.

Close

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

Common Sense

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

The Casual Vacancy

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt