Character Quote by Richard Steele

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

— David Hume

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by…

— H. L. Mencken

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward…

— Arthur Koestler

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden…

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

— Bernard DeVoto

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

— Bertrand Russell

“When offended, husbands should “act like men, be strong”(1 Corinthians 16:13).”

— Emerson Eggerichs

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

— Thomas Huxley