Woman wants control, man self-control .
—Immanuel Kant
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild..
—Immanuel Kant
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
—Immanuel Kant
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
—René Descartes
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
—Immanuel Kant
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
—Aristotle
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual life.
—Aristotle
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.
—Aristotle
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
—Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
—Aristotle
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
—Aristotle
All men by nature desire to know.
—Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.
—Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
—Aristotle
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
—Aristotle
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
—Nikolai Gogol
“Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man’s best self.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
—Thomas Aquinas
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We cannot go to heaven as worldly men; for there would be nothing there to gratify us.”
— Charles Spurgeon
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
Labour to be of a calm, dispassionate temper; gentle towards all men; and let the gentleness of your disposition appear in the whole tenor of your conversation. Let all your words and all your actions be regulated thereby.
—John Wesley
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
Herein appears the depth of the wisdom of God, in his adorable providence; in governing men, so as not to destroy either their understanding, will, or liberty.
—John Wesley
O Thou that art fairer than the children of men, full of grace are Thy lips! Speak that I may see Thee! And as the shadows flee before the sun, so let all my idols vanish at Thy presence!
—John Wesley