"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved."
-Lafcadio Hearn
PowerView Quote
"It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.“
-Lafcadio Hearn
posted in Respect
Other Quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
Discover more inspiring quotes by Lafcadio Hearn
"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete."
-Lafcadio Hearn
KnowledgeView Quote
"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind."
-Lafcadio Hearn
KnowledgeView Quote
"There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny."
-Lafcadio Hearn
PoetryView Quote
"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles."
-Lafcadio Hearn
RespectView Quote
"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."
-Lafcadio Hearn
RespectView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
RespectView Quote
"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
RespectView Quote
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-H. L. Mencken
RespectView Quote
"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
-Rita Rudner
RespectView Quote
"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
-Georges Duhamel
RespectView Quote
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
-Confucius
RespectView Quote