Quotes 3201 till 3220 of 4652.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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