Aspect Quote by John Dos Passos

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of…

— Stanley Kubrick

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

— Rebecca West

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction…

— Italo Calvino

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk…

— William Cowper

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power…

— Claud Cockburn

“Satyrs share a deep connection to all things in nature and are highly sensual. Obsessed with physical pleasure, they are usually mild-mannered, but will…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that person, who…

— Ehsan Sehgal

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he…

— Samuel Johnson

“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own…

— Stanley Kubrick

The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to…

— Markesa Yeager

From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his…

— G. I. Gurdjieff