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Manly Quotes (page 284)

The dialectic of antiquity tended towards leadership (the great individual and the masses--the free man and the slaves); so far the dialectic of Christendom tends towards representation (the majority sees itself in its representative and is set free by the consciousness that it is the majority which is represented, in a sort of self-consciousness); the dialectic of the present age tends towards equality, and its most logical--though mistaken--fulfilment is levelling, as the negative unity of... Soren Kierkegaard
Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there--hanging between the bare branches of the trees--was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile. Clive Barker
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Hm? yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from..."
Hm? yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Dickens quote: "There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love..."
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you. Charles Dickens
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying. Douglas Adams
A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats inhis chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himselfwith so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, andinside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, andmarveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had beenaccounted for, was the soul. Milan Kundera
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature. Soren Kierkegaard
Ernest Hemingway quote: "It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The..."
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's..."
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? Barbara Kingsolver
The Lord through His grace appeared to man, gave him the Gospel or eternal plan whereby he might rise above the carnal and selfish things of life and obtain spiritual perfection. But he must rise by his own efforts and he must walk by faith. David O. McKay
George Eliot quote: "No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea..."
No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience. George Eliot
Epictetus quote: "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already..."
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Margaret Atwood quote: "What is the real breath of a man? the breathing out or the..."
What is the real breath of a man? the breathing out or the breathing in? Margaret Atwood
Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating? Barbara Pym

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