Quotes About Connection

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

I can't function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

I love men who make me laugh.

No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.