„Honor and dignity of man is only in virtue and piety.“
— Husayn ibn Ali The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib 626 - 680
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 128
— Husayn ibn Ali The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib 626 - 680
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 128
— George Santayana 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism 1863 - 1952
— G. K. Chesterton English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874 - 1936
Context: It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. No one sees anything funny in a tree falling down. No one sees a delicate absurdity in a stone falling down. No man stops in the road and roars with laughter at the sight of the snow coming down. The fall of thunderbolts is treated with some gravity. The fall of roofs and high buildings is taken seriously. It is only when a man tumbles down that we laugh. Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
"Spiritualism"
— William Ernest Hocking American philosopher 1873 - 1966
The Coming World Civilization (1956), p. 7.
— George Santayana 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism 1863 - 1952
Ch. 4
— Baba Amte Indian freedom fighter, social worker 1914 - 2008
On Governance
— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
As quoted in Letters of H. L. Mencken (1961) edited by Guy J. Forgue, p. xiii
— Immanuel Kant German philosopher 1724 - 1804
Im Reiche der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes als Äquivalent gesetzt werden; was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde.
434:32, M. Gregor, trans. (Cambridge: 1998), p. 42
— Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723 - 1790
Chapter I, Part III, Article III, p. 874.
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
As quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1988) by Robert Byrne
— Thomas Paine English and American political activist 1737 - 1809
— John Fletcher English Jacobean playwright 1579 - 1625
Epilogue. Compare: "An honest man's the noblest work of God", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248.
— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918
— Aristophanés Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -446 - -385 a.C.
tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Kn.+1274
Knights, line 1274-1275