Born Quote by Baron d'Holbach

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

— Frank Herbert

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into…

— Jean Cocteau

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before…

— J. B. Priestley

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he…

— Blaise Pascal

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

— Marquis de Sade