Great men Quote by Gustave Le Bon

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear…

— Sir Fulke Greville

“men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for…

— Henry Fielding

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop…

— Knut Hamsun

“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others’ idea of who…

— Roland Merullo

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the…

— Robert M. Edsel

“He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and…

— Victor Hugo

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the…

— Oscar Wilde

“All of the statues of all the great men will, with time and wind and water, be consumed.”

— Michael Gray Calvert