Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 4539.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Santayana The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Jean Rostand The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henry Miller The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Stuart Mill The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Robert E. Lee The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • James Agate The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Francis Picabia The essence of a man is found in his faults.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Henry Kissinger The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Albert Pike The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Machiavelli The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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