#lie

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#men

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war) ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#treaty #war #men

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. ↗

— Albert Camus

#meaning #men

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#honor #pride #men

But I do have conversations about the Patriarchy and I am having them with gay men. At eighteen, I am discovering what generations of women have long known. The natural ally of the straight woman is the gay man because they are others losers too. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#gay-men #patriarchy #men

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#cruelty #lie #lying #truth #men

The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of the day watching me as if you thought I might follow your merlin into the sky and never return. ↗

— Stephen R. Lawhead

#men

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in. ↗

— Po Bronson

#business #business

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible. ↗

— Carter Dickson

#endurance #strength #men

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#doubt #men