Serious Man Quotes

• Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

  Rashi

  Simplicity, Happens

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• When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

  Grace Slick

  Lying, Joy, Truth Is

  Song: Somebody To Love

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• The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

  G. H. Hardy

  Life, Science, Men

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• Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

  Plato

  Writing, Men, Doe

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• There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Believe, Men, Gossip

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.83, OUP Oxford

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• A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Knowing, Sincerity

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• But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

  Jacob Needleman

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Writing

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• There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

  Peter Roebuck

  Men, Sight, Laughing

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• A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Men, Done

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• Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Children, Philosophy

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• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  A. Scott Berg

  Men, Hollywood, Ends

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• Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Men, Getting Older

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