Men Quote by Jacques Maritain Download Open image “Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.” — Jacques Maritain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Minimum Philosophic Vain
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never… — William Penn Copy Share Image
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect.… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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