When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“...he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever.… — Barry Gifford Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“In another of his most famous essays, Montaigne argued that to philosophise is to learn to die. I learned how to die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
“Why the Albanians had created the institution of the guest, exalting it above all other human relations, even those of kinship. “Perhaps… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
“As he finally stopped fighting sleep, he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support.… — Kendell Foster Crossen Copy Share Image
“MOTHER. Is he mad, or a rascal? LADY. He's neither. He's no ordinary man; and it's a pity I can tell him… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Till now I lived thinking that being a man was all about being strong. But that wasnt so. An ordinary man uses… — Arang And The Magistrate Copy Share Image
“He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
“Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not,… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“So a contemporary wedding is like the Olympic Games, a spectacle of detailed research and preparation but lasts only a short time.… — michael foley Copy Share Image
Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we… — John Dee Copy Share Image
“I know that everyone in this room, Bernie Fain included, thinks I'm some kind of a nut with my so-called fixation on… — Jeff Rice Copy Share Image
Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“He was the best kind of ordinary man, and when I say that he was an ordinary man, I mean that as… — Harry Truman Copy Share Image
