Quotes about men
men invisible relation
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible? Johann Kaspar Lavater
men no-friends depends
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
men expression want
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
men ideas desire
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
men no-friends dependence-on-others
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
men enemy good-man
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
men thinking degrees
It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
men littles matter
It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
men conversation dictionary
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.
men roots long
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
men errors amiable
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
men errors rational
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
men thinking he-man
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
men winning want
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
men useless handicapped
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
men impossible please
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
men strive restlessness
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
men revealing mankind
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
men noble-man gentle
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
men causes finals
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
men peers noble
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
men faults lovable
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
men strive
Man must strive, and striving he must err.
men want way
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
men thinking agreement
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
men littles stills
The little man is still a man.
men he-man force
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
men perfect sensitive
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
men luxury noble
Noble be man, helpful and good!
men healthy-habits comfort
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
men would-be lord
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
men religion atheism
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
men mind doubt
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.