Accounts Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

— George Sarton

“the humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like an elder brother who is conscious of his responsibilities; the humanist who loves men as…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority…

— David Hume

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

Men of intelligence are Admired. Men of wealth are envied. Men of power are feared, but only men of character are Trusted.

— Anonymous

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

— Terence

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

— Walt Whitman

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint,…

— Anonymous

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case…

— Joseph P. Farrell