Quotes about men
men good-man victim
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. Albert Camus
men cells may
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. Albert Claude
men doubt tools
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
men practice cells
If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.
men ignorant letters
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. Albert J. Nock
men thinking significant-things
It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind .
men speech speak
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.
men desire needs
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
men film crew
Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything. Albert Brooks
men two knowing
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four
men forever atheism
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.
men order mind
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
men every-man
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
men matter life-is
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
men reason existence
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
men feelings mind
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
men together links
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
men law trying
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
men free-man
Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
men anxious wander
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
men want might
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
men artist stronger
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
men thinking despair
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.
men hands way
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
men self honest
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
men machines firsts
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
men liberty want
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
men judging-yourself mind
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
men feelings faces
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
men suffering world
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
men paper may
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
men views years
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.
men independence craving
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.