Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 375.
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”
On his Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921).
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 68
Context: I let nothing slip, however small; and feel myself actuated by the same motive which has prompted many worthy old chroniclers, to set down the merest trifles concerning things that are destined to pass away entirely from the earth, and which, if not preserved in the nick of time, must infallibly perish from the memories of man. Who knows that this humble narrative may not hereafter prove the history of an obsolete barbarism? Who knows that, when men-of-war shall be no more, "White-Jacket" may not be quoted to show to the people in the Millennium what a man-of-war was? God hasten the time!
“Man ought to be content, it is said; but with what?”
L'homme doit être content, dit-on; mais de quoi?
Pensées, Remarques, et Observations de Voltaire; ouvrage posthume (1802)
This is from a volume of posthumously published "Thoughts, remarks and observations" believed to be by Voltaire. http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/31/04_Pensees.html
Citas
“It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.”
As quoted in The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary Special Supplement (1966), p. 2047
“Christ is the ideal of what a man should be.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 109
Context: Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which Christ knows, and I do not; but I am following after. I am pressing up toward that thought that Christ has of what I am and ought to be; and I am determined that I will apprehend it as Christ Himself does. Not that I have it; but I will strive for it. My manhood is in the future. My life lies beyond the present.
