Development Quote by Georg Simmel

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

— Aristotle

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as…

— Immanuel Kant

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

— Ovid

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

— Adam Smith

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

— Blaise Pascal

“Working places and commerce must be mingled right in with residences if men, like the men who work on or near Hudson Street, for…

— Jane Jacobs

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make…

— George Meredith

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where…

— Anna Ford

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy…

— William James