“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”
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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”
“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”
“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
“English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.”
“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
“There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.”
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.”
“When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.”
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”
“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.”
“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”
“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”
“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.”
“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.”
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.”
“One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.”
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”