Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.
The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The 'divine service' is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'
