Essentials Quote by Anonymous

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he…

— Albert Einstein

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his…

— Albert Einstein

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who…

— William Cowper

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone;…

— Josef Pieper

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds…

— Sherwood Anderson

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

“A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men…

— Martin Luther

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow man, and,…

— Erich Fromm

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche