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Men Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
- It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the…
- No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,…
- The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in…
- When success turns a man's head he faces failure
- The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
- A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten…
- A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
- The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
- The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,…
- Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different…
- Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
- The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the…
- The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact,…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle