Amos Bronson Alcott - Man Quotes

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Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.

Amos Bronson Alcott
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Amos Bronson Alcott
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

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The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Amos Bronson Alcott
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Amos Bronson Alcott
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Amos Bronson Alcott
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

Amos Bronson Alcott