Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit. The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.

The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

The Moviegoer

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Northanger Abbey

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

No Man Is an Island

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Notes from Underground

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

Neverwhere

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Nature, Man and Woman

It’s still his favorite dish, though. War and rancid meat.

No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

One Man Caravan

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Light in August

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ― Portuguese Proverb

The Life and Letters of Father Andrew

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

Laughable Loves

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

The Lower Depths, And Other Plays

God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in , made God in his image.

Lectures on the Essence of Religion

Every comforting word is a command from a man of action... While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words...

Life Simplified!

Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve.

Lady, You're Not a Man! : The Adventures of a Woman at Work

This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,

Manhood for Amateurs