Certain Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual…

— Edmund Burke

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

— Gad Saad

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a…

— Pope John Paul II

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy…

— William James

“Men often, in endeavoring to gratify their own passions, seek what is injurious to them, reject what would be truly advantageous, and are deluded…

— Sozomen

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

— Luc de Clapiers

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

— John Carroll