Quotes about men
men civilization machines
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. Andre Malraux
men solitude feelings
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
men risk dignity
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
men yield leviathan
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
men secret age
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations.
men firsts
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
men wish world
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
men destiny faces
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
men keeping-secrets littles
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
men thinking secret
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
men brilliant madmen
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. Andre Maurois
men interesting boredom
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
men painful said
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
men waste combat
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
men order ideas
Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.
men giving silence
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
men affection like-you
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
men modesty virtue
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
men vulnerable tempest
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
men pay sound
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever. Amelie Nothomb
men training matter
Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere. Ameen Rihani
men thinking self
Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.
men needs moral
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
men over-you soul
In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.
men soul psychology
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
men tears littles
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
men treats brutes
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
men wicked world
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
men democracy care
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
men twenties ready
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
men talking together
I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to not enjoy what I was talking about. Andy Kindler
men use world
The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?" Andy Murray
men tragedy stories
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.