It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Giambattista Vico
Related What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above th... ALBERT CAMUS This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is tr... FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among t... HAILE SELASSIE It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. ZELDA FITZGERALD Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that ... JOHN STEINBECK This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the... JOSEPH MITCHELL The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems... P.D. JAMES Tis a wicked, wicked world when men take it upon themselves to be God. 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BRUCE BARTON Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life,... RALPH WALDO EMERSON How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built ... YOUSUF KARSH There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the... RALPH MOODY Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we n... AYN RAND The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wis... LEAH WILSON For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and wha... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedo... TADAO ANDO Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that tho... CHARLES DICKENS Everything that was good from that small remote country had gone into them - sunshine and strength, ... SILVIA CARTRIGHT Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 In this age when it seems tacitl... ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM TEMPLE One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that ... BERTRAND RUSSELL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ... V. S. NAIPAUL The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ... V.S. NAIPAUL It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land wher... MARGARET MITCHELL The world has been made by fools that men should live in it OSCAR WILDE All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt,... NAPOLEON HILL I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, ... GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS Jesus made Himself available to everyone. Unlike former prophets and the religious men of His day, w... MOTHER ANGELICA The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r... ERICH FROMM The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r... ERICH FROMM Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is ... THOMAS SZASZ Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and... ROBERT HEINLEIN Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and... , FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their ... MAHATMA GANDHI It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their f... MAHATMA GANDHI We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. A... JIM MURPHY If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in ... MAGGIE GALLAGHER Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in s... FR The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when ... BLACK ELK This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends... T. S. ELIOT We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter. RICK RIORDAN THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERF... JOHN IRVING Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 Ultimate confidence i... REINHOLD NIEBUHR A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Regular men allow themselves to be shaped. Great men shape themselves. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. DAVID ALLAN COE If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Har... HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For m... BEN JONSON But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because th... JOHN STEINBECK If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once ... LEO TOLSTOY I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are... VANESSA CARLTON The selfish pride and greed that dwells within men, nations, religious doctrines, financial institut... MARCOS CURIEL I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ... ALBERT EINSTEIN Without doubt, sports and sports men and women can be a power for good in the world inspiring by exa... KLAUS TOEPFER The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without inte... ABU'L-ALA-AL-MA'ARRI Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broa... W. E. B. DU BOIS I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselve... THOMAS JEFFERSON Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women. VIDYA BALAN Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. CHARLES DE SECONDAT I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio... ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives... KIMBERLY ADAMS There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) fro... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generati... JOHN A. WIDTSOE It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. ERICH MARIA REMARQUE This does have serious implications for not only the business world but for marriage and family. Are... SARAH PAPPAS If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough... CHRISTINA STEAD It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes risi... MUHAMMAD IQBAL Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ELISSA MELAMED So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is... PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become ex... MOHANDAS GANDHI All men think all men mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal, but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, ... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made,... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gent... SIGMUND FREUD The growing independence of women threatens the traditional (male) roles. Men who aren't sure of the... CARMEN BARROSO By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the h... MARK TWAIN Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian s... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave.... ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easi... ALBERT EINSTEIN What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have lear... VERNON JORDAN We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the ou... GARETH PEIRCE Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structu... CONNIE MACK
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