"Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman."

-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Men Quotes #May Quotes #He Man Quotes

“The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.”
“I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.”
“The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.”
“So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.”
“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556
“We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.”
“The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.”
“Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?”

Source : Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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