"History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."

-- Robin G. Collingwood

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
“Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.”
“DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.”
“What is known for certain is dull.”

Source : "I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier". Book by Igor F. Tsigelny, p. 314, 1998.
“Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.”
“Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.”
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.”
“My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.”

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