Men Quotes

Art is man determined to die sane.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.