Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor.
- Raymond Chandler
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is "remains." To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man to be an ex-man or "damned ghost" would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will.
- C S Lewis
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
- Karl Friedrich Schlegel
- Raymond Chandler
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is "remains." To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man to be an ex-man or "damned ghost" would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will.
- C S Lewis
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
- Karl Friedrich Schlegel
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