Quote by Kahlil Gibran

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will ap

Summary

This quote suggests that actions considered weak or immoral in the present can be viewed differently in the future. What may be seen as a failure or flaw today, could actually be recognized as a necessary step in the overall development and progress of humanity. It implies that our current judgment of actions may be limited and subjective, and that our perspectives may evolve over time. Ultimately, it emphasizes the complexities of human nature and the potential for redemption and understanding.

Topics

Weakness Mankind

By Kahlil Gibran

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a mu

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extincti

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction

The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action a

The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.

Cecil J. Sharpe

You are at enmity with yourself.

You are at enmity with yourself.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

Truth Prejudice Open Mindedness

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that d

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a Hi

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Johann von Goethe

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fu

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observ

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance