Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l... KUO HIS How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if... ALEXANDER THE GREAT For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, j... C.S. LEWIS The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and al... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and ab... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he doe... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and... JOSIAH WARREN Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field. SACHIN TENDULKAR The man who masters his thoughts, masters himself; and it is only on that journey that his potential... RDAMBITION Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own ... MARCEL DUCHAMP His preaching is birthed out of love for people, and his love for God surpasses his love for people. MARCUS JOHNSON And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his fat... BIBLE The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he doe... AGNES REPPLIER The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he d... AGNES REPPLIER That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. MARY ASTELL Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most ... ERICH FROMM Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their des... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, th... THOMAS MANN That man is great, and he alone,
Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good. AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SYDNEY MADWED The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha... SIGMUND FREUD The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ERIC HOFFER The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienat... CARL GUSTAV JUNG When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens h... ROBERT BOLT In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen... OCTAVIO PAZ The greatest type of achiever is the one who always strives to surpass himself and to be worthy of h... ZENG HAN JUN An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ... WALTER BAGEHOT Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to exa... CRISS JAMI Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster fr... ERIC HOFFER I never get into comparisons. And I don't know his father's game well enough to make a comparison. H... TOM CREAN There is more to a boy than what his mother sees. There is more to a boy then what his father dreams... BEN BEHUNIN Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inhe... FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. SOPHOCLES A man need never revenge himself, the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door CHINESE PROVERBS Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri... FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his ow... LUDWIG VON MISES The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear fro... GEORG SIMMEL Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be... BIBLE Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sens... GEORGE SANTAYANA Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, o... GEORGE SANTAYANA Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family,... BARRY GOLDWATER A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test ANUJ SOMANY A man with a mission does not think in terms of his own success and failure. He does his work for wh... CHANDAN KUMAR DE In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousn... JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his ... HERMANN HESSE I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your moth... BETH LYON BARNETT If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?' "The Torah tells us He has made... NOAH GORDON When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to... FRANK ABAGNALE The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. ... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER I take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda and that he will be his own man a... PATRICK LEAHY Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT “A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts ou... CARLOS CASTANEDA The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. MARCEL PAGNOL The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled o... THEODOR ADORNO Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. JOHN WEBSTER That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding h... THOMAS MERTON In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding... THOMAS MERTON The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ROBERT FROST A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he esta... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survi... RACHEL CARSON Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. D. H. LAWRENCE God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all t... JOHN TAULER True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends b... LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' ... LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' ... LARRY MCMURTRY Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most impo... ERICH FROMM . . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. ... JOHN CONNOLLY David Geffen learned early on that his voice was his most powerful weapon. He leaned that if he scre... TOM KING Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws ... KATE DICAMILLO In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'find... THOMAS MERTON To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. CLAUDE MCKAY Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and clea... MIKE PENCE There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to... D. H. LAWRENCE All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. OSCAR WILDE So, then, to every man his chance - to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden oppor... THOMAS WOLFE I don't think words can comfort at this time. Just love and support of his family, and for Will to k... GEORGE LOPEZ Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere... C.S. LEWIS If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he i... WILL DURANT The book deals with being an honorable person in a dishonest world. The Fencing Master does not sell... ARTURO PEREZ REVERTE As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we beg... M.L. VON FRANZ It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master e... ROALD DAHL True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends... LARRY MCMURTRY “Behind every successful man there is a woman” --- If a husband does not sacrifice his wishes fo... MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED
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LAWRENCE Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it ... D. H. LAWRENCE There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the str... D. H. LAWRENCE When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. D. H. LAWRENCE Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. D. H. LAWRENCE One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a... D. H. LAWRENCE The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar... D. H. LAWRENCE I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ... D. H. LAWRENCE All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with t... D. H. LAWRENCE You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positi... D. H. LAWRENCE It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of... D. H. LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui... D. H. LAWRENCE Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with se... D. H. LAWRENCE For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly... D. H. LAWRENCE It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. D. H. LAWRENCE The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. D. H. LAWRENCE The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit... D. H. LAWRENCE But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an... D. H. LAWRENCE Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays. D. H. LAWRENCE Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and belie... D. H. LAWRENCE But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ... D. H. LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us... D. H. LAWRENCE But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness... D. H. LAWRENCE And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain... D. H. LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say,... D H LAWRENCE Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. D. H. LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. D. H. LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intu... D H LAWRENCE For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intui... D H LAWRENCE Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures ar... D. H. LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever ha... D. H. LAWRENCE How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. LAWRENCE For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuit... D. H. LAWRENCE One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in... D. H. LAWRENCE But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. LAWRENCE Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. D. H. LAWRENCE The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitut... D. H. LAWRENCE They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. D. H. LAWRENCE A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ... D. H. LAWRENCE I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about... D. H. LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea... D. H. LAWRENCE One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik... D. H. LAWRENCE The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a ... D. H. LAWRENCE It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is... D. H. LAWRENCE I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D. H. LAWRENCE The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. LAWRENCE Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks... D. H. LAWRENCE The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. LAWRENCE Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. D. H. LAWRENCE Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. D. H. LAWRENCE The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable o... D. H. LAWRENCE I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t... D. H. LAWRENCE Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. LAWRENCE The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. D. H. LAWRENCE The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. D. H. LAWRENCE The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go... D. H. LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ... D. H. LAWRENCE Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always ... D. H. LAWRENCE Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only ... D. H. LAWRENCE Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. D. H. LAWRENCE I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. D. H. LAWRENCE California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void P... D. H. LAWRENCE One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste... D. H. LAWRENCE Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs... D. H. LAWRENCE Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. LAWRENCE My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live marr... D. H. LAWRENCE I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ... D. H. LAWRENCE Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. D. H. LAWRENCE People always make war when they say they love peace. D. H. LAWRENCE I shall always be a priest of love. D. H. LAWRENCE Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D. H. LAWRENCE My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. D. H. LAWRENCE I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo... D. H. LAWRENCE Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. D. H. LAWRENCE I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel... D. H. LAWRENCE