Masters Quotes - Page 37

• A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Inspiration, Charity

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• When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, World, Dupes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, New York, Powerful

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• Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, Ships, Unfaithful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

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• The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

  John F. Kennedy

  Class, Citizens, States

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.9, Best Books on

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• Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Music, Running, Heart

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.315, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

  John Tyler

  Horse, Lying, Years

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• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  Aristotle

  Perception, Genius, Talent

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, Hypocrisy

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.40, Best Books on

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• Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

  Sigmund Freud

  Tyrants, Ego, Three

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "The Anatomy of the Mental Personality" (Lecture 31), 1933.

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• In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Men, Order

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• A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Teacher, Children, Angel

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• All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Fun, Men, Roles

  Konrad Lorenz (1971). “Studies in animal and human behaviour”

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• A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

  Philip Kapleau

  Fun, Earth Day, Helping

  Philip Kapleau (1980). “Zen: dawn in the West”, Doubleday

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• When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Fun, Rain, Walks

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• We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Loyalty, Exercise, Power

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• It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Crazy, Stupid

  "Newt’s Law of Malevolence" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Ideals are the world's masters.

  J. G. Holland

  Military, Reality, World

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• The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

  H. G. Wells

  Dog, Confused, Cat

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.7244, Delphi Classics

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• Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

  Joy Page

  Life, Doe, Obstacles

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• An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Confidence, Pain, Real

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• The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Would Be, Awareness

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Art, Littles, Awareness

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