Quotes about men
men political opinion
Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
men anecdotes world
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
men phrases becoming
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
men capacity overestimate
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
men two feelings
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
men knowing self
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
men justice sides
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
men suffering degrees
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
men hands good-man
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
men advice ifs
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
men masters prove
The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
men desire aspiration
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
men understanding he-man
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
men errors research
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
men strive
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
men issues form
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
men self world
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
men important particular
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
men leaving tolerance
A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
men want painting
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
men delight alive
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
men giving mind
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
men quality favour
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
men be-you
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
men elderly wish
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
men expression giving
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
men thinking joy
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
men animal add
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
men reality imagination
Few men have imagination enough for reality.
men thinking safety
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.
men world prudent
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
men doe dies
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. [Ger., Die Menschen furchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen.]
men track may
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.