Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by... believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?--from sorrow to sorrow?--to button up one cause of vexation!--and u...nbutton another!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art... mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man com...es through woman; but all things come from God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then ...come, follow me." When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy Singer: You look like a really happy couple. Are you? Woman on Street: Yeah.... Alvy Singer: Yeah? So how do you account for it? Woman on Street: I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say. Man on Street: And I'm exactly the same way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is made by man--for man alone. I, who have lived as a man among men, realize it. I, who have talked with men as a man, k...now it. And whatever man may say about "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," they know that nothing rules men but their desires and there is no ruler in this world but sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »