Quotes 301 till 320 of 8624.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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I’ve learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.
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Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it againSource: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
― St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Source: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 -
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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