Quotes of: Sane-man Keyword

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Man's Search for Meaning

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Man's Search for Meaning

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Mort

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

The Mouse the Roared

What were you saying about the way I smell?" "It's like hot testosterone on a fuckin' cracker, sprinkled with cinnamon." ~Mariss

The Man Without Rules

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.

On the Meaning of Sex

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Mighty Little Man: My Story, His Story, Our Story

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

A Man for All Seasons

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

A Man for All Seasons

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

The Man Who Was Thursday

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The Nicomachean Ethics

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Nature, Man and God

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

No Man Is an Island

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

No Man Is an Island

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

No Man Is an Island

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

No Man Is an Island

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

No Man Is an Island