Men Quotes - Page 1115

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.