Moss Man

Famous quotes containing the words moss and/or man:

“The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)