Begets Quote by Socrates

“[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But…

— Immanuel Kant

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a…

— Max Stirner

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be…

— Samuel Johnson

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can…

— Samuel Johnson

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

— Albert J. Nock

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary…

— Derrick Jensen

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

— Che Guevara

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

— William Hazlitt

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his…

— Henry David Thoreau