In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
There is no doubt that the government under Modi, on every front, has given an exemplary performance, and the attraction of the common man towards Modi has definitely grown.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
