Common Quote by John Lancaster Spalding Download Open image “The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.” — John Lancaster Spalding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common man Controlled Ideas Interest Men Superiors
“Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. — Confucius Copy Share Image
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. —Confucius” — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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