Men Quotes
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.
Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.