Mean Quote by Eyvind Johnson

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge…

— Ernst Mach

“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries…

— Albert Einstein

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.…

— Walter Isaacson

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting…

— Herman Melville

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he…

— Samuel Johnson