A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
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A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.
The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is _x000D_ ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas _x000D_ engender social institutions, political changes, technologi- _x000D_ cal methods of production, and all that is called economic _x000D_ conditions.
What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.
When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.
There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.
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