Modern Men Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to…
— Jules de Goncourt
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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,…
— Sam Keen
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There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
— George Augustus Henry Sala
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You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
— Walter Lippmann
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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
— Jacques Ellul
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.…
— Joseph Campbell
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
— Oscar Wilde
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
— Will Cuppy
Who Wrote These Modern Men Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Modern Men Quotes as follows: