Men - Quotes
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
The general root of superstition [is] that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Every one who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of one.
To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection - the comparative increase of population and wealth - of those groups that happened to follow them.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
How restricted
Are your horizons, woman. And yet this
Precisely is what charms ambitious men.
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.