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Men Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star…
- The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal…
- Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
- Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around…
- In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up…
- Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a…
- The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man…
- In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
- The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but…
- In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked…
- All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls…
- Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.
- Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.
- All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between…
- What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
- Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
- No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
- The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
- Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
- I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little…
- I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the…
- The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- 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