Quotes 4141 till 4160 of 5500.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
Dracula (1897) -
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) -
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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