Desire Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine Download Open image “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” — Alphonse de Lamartine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Fallen God God God Remembers Heaven Infinite Desire Nature Remembers Heaven
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
“God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys — Alphonse De Lamartine Copy Share Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image