Air Quote by Lisa Alther

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”

— Henri Frédéric Amiel

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

— Wendell Berry

The man who delights in the outer lives of others has no inner life of his own.

— Vikrant Parsai

A real man is a slave of beneficiency.

— Meekness Tapera

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

— William Frederick Book

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

“The lazy man is the slave of his own feelings. His body is his master; not his servant. He is the slave of circumstances.”

— William Dewitt Hyde

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

— Anonymous

Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely…

— Andrew Carnegie