“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 67.
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.”
William Mulock (1843–1944) Canadian politician, judge, academic administrator
Toronto Star, 30 November 1928, reported in [Famous Lasting Words: Great Canadian Quotations, Douglas & McIntyre, 2000, Vancouver, Columbo, John Robert, 571]
“Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!”
Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692) British writer
Theodosius, or the Force of Love (acted 1680), Act iii., Sc. 2.
Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Source: CEO Talk | Brunello Cucinelli, Founder and Chief Executive https://www.businessoffashion.com/amp/articles/ceo-talk/ceo-talk-brunello-cucinelli-founder-chief-executive-brunello-cucinelli Imran Amed, Business of Fashion, 1 July 2014
“A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
“An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.”
Thomas Paine book Rights of Man
Part 1.7 Conclusion
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.