Pastoral Resources

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Man knows much more than he understands.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.