No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
– Robert Burton
Related Quotes:
- A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all. – Martin Luther
- When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. – Girdhar Joshi
- The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject. – Dada Bhagwan
- The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both. – Billy Graham
- When we wallow in anxiety and doubts, we subject ourselves to fear. When we focus on the greatness of God, we make fear subject to faith. – Katy Kauffman
- One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking. – Edwin V Mitchell
- What a glut of books! Who can read them? – Robert Burton
- Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed. – Robert A Burton
- [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. – Robert Burton
- [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. – Robert Burton
- Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
- A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
- An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. – Kirkus Review – Robert Uttaro
- There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human. – Kate Griffin
- The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. – HL Mencken
- I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being – LeVar Burton
- The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. – William Burton Pope
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. – CG Jung
- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is the most fascinating subject that I have ever encountered in human health! – Steven Magee
- Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject. – Agatha Christie
- Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. – Shannon L Alder
- Believe it or don’t believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man’s. – Jessie Burton
- A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn’t. – Neel Burton
- Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling. – Neel Burton
- A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. – Neel Burton
- My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is – don’t give it up unless you’re willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power! – Julieanne OConnor
- He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. – HW Brands
- Freedom or prison–what’s the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. – Robert M Drake
- I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. – Barbara T Cerny
- A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man. – Robert F Kennedy
- Human kind has always been in the shadows of each other since its persistence of social interventional among the large groups of human societies. – Het Desai
- Human kind is on one big power trip that is ripping the sole out of the subtleness and kindness of the human spirit – Aidan Donnelly
- It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act. – Stanley Milgram
- To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves. – Catherynne M Valente
- Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human. – Abhijit Naskar
- I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being. – Robert Jensen
- When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive. – Neel Burton