Men Quotes - Page 977

We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind. This belief was twice shaken in the past century; first when Russell and his successors showed how the logic men employ can be defective, and later when Freud and Piaget started to reveal the tortuous ways in which our minds actually develop.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.