Philosophy Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.”

— Charles Olson

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”

— David Hume

“Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.”

— George MacDonald

“Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world--children, families,…

— Douglas Coupland

“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”

— David Malouf

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“A man act according to his thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell,”

— Richard Marsh

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.…

— Alice Hoffman

“Not that he wanted to say that. It would make it sound as if he wanted to blame her.. Women were very complicated creatures.…

— Peter David

“Until a man can think soundly and logically; he's not a man but a mere drifter into the wind.”

— Everton Forbes

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman