Random Quotes in the Topic Men
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Great men are they who see that spirituality is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are the most active.
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
