Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

Arthur Koestler

man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.

Arthur Koestler

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Arthur Koestler

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Arthur Koestler

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Arthur Miller

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

Arthur Miller

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Arthur Miller

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Arthur Miller

Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

Arthur Miller

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

Arthur Miller

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

Arthur Miller

Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

Arthur Miller

When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.

Arthur Miller

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Arthur Miller

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Arthur Miller

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Arthur Miller

Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

Arthur Miller

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Artemisia Gentileschi

I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

Many times there have been only men. Now it is a moment to have only women.

Scouting is the only program I know of that teaches young men leadership, specifically leadership, and it's fun.

Albert Einstein

So long as there are men there will be wars. So long as there are men there will be wars.

She's a special kid. She just has that mental toughness.

Diane Neal

I was such a late bloomer I didn’t have feelings towards men or women, and frankly I was a little surprised when it turned out to be men

Diane Lane

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

Dennis Quaid

As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.

Dennis Rodman

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

Dennis Prager

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Dennis Prager

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

Dennis Prager

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

Dennis Prager

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

Dennis Prager

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

Dennis Gabor

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.