Bias Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled…

— Leo Tolstoy

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will,…

— Giacomo Leopardi

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves to grand…

— Jason Versey

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more…

— Andre Gide

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

— Ayn Rand

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.…

— James Freeman Clarke

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

— Friedrich Nietzsche