In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it.... Man believes th...at the world itself is filled with beauty--he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world--alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated.... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones... (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which ... repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were to select a watchword that I would have every young man write above his door and on his heart, it would be that good wor...d "Fidelity." I know of no better. The man who meets every obligation to the family, to society, to the State, to his country, and his God, to the very best measure of his strength and ability, cannot fail of that assurance and quietness that comes of a good conscience, and will seldom fail of the approval of his fellow-men, and will never fail of the reward which is promised to his faithfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble pe...rsonage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very fact that he had no rabble or troop of hirelings about him would alone distinguish him from ordinary heroes. His company ...was small indeed, because few could be found worthy to pass muster. Each one who there laid down his life for the poor and oppressed was a picked man,... a man of principle, of rare courage, and devoted humanity; ready to sacrifice his life at any moment for the benefit of his fellow-man. It may be doubted if there were as many more their equals in these respects in all the country.... These alone were ready to step between the oppressor and the oppressed. Surely they were the very best men you could select to be hung. That was the greatest compliment which this country could pay them. They were ripe for the gallows. She has tried a long time, she has hung a good many, but never found the right one before.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 »