God cursed the snake, but it finds sustenance everywhere. God cursed the woman, but all men pursue her.
~ Talmud, Yoma, 75
Adams owed more to the American woman than to all the American men he ever heard of, and felt not the smallest call to defend his sex who seemed able to take care of themselves; but from the point of view of sex he flt much curiosity to know how far the woman was right, and, in pursuing this inquiry, he caught the trick of affirming that the woman was the superior. Apart from truth, he owed her at least that compliment.
~ Henry Adams in The Education of Henry Adams
Woman is the chain by which man is attached to the chariot of folly.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak
Nothing enchants the soul so much as young women. They alone are the cause of evil and there is no other.
~ Bharitihari, in The Sringa Satak
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato
“The greatness of God is infinite; for while with one die, man impresses many coins, and all are exactly alike, the King of Kings with one die, impresses the same image (of Adam) on all men, and yet not one of them is like his neighbor. Thus it is that every one ought to say: ‘For me the Universe is created.’”
~ Talmud, Sanhedrin, 37a
It would seem that fatherhood and personhood are inextricably intertwined. I would love to see this short 30 second clip used in a YouTube debate.
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Eighty per cent of mankind is stuff to fill graves with.
~ Ford Madox Ford, in Esquire magazine, August 1966
Among the people there are killers who have not yet shed blood, and thieves who have stolen nothing, and liars who have so far told the truth.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
~ Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, in The Main Problems of Abu Nasr Al-Paraba
I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being–that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
~ Mark Twain, in Harper Magazine, Sept. 1899
Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of low-grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time his is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the “noblest work of God.”
~ Mark Twain, in Letters from the Earth
Dostoevsky said, “If there is no God, then anything is possible.” I would say that if there is no love, nothing is possible. Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
A snippet from a great message entitled How great is our God! by Louie Giglio, this section talks about Laminin, an amazing molecule in the human body.
Diogenes Laertius has handed down to us some fascinating source material in his work Lives of Eminent Philosophers
