Culture Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on…

— Thomas Carlyle

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for…

— C. S. Lewis

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

— Russell Kirk

“It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it…

— Adam Smith

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from…

— Orison Swett Marden

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make…

— George Meredith

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

— Aristotle

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so…

— Niccolo Machiavelli