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“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.”

Men Firsts Facts Understanding Differences Animal Latter

Author:Theophrastus

“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”

“The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].”

Knows Men Science Bits Differences Men And Women Logic Mathematics Statements Bathroom Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:John Allen Paulos

“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”

Men World Way May Different Use Eye Able Lost Women Differences Wife Fronts Men And Women My Wife Spots Desert Different Ways Visuals Convince Hiding Cheese Jungle Variation Refrigerators

Author:Edward T. Hall

“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”

Men Differences Conditions Color Civilized Globes

Book:The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...

Source: The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...

“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”

“Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'”

Men Values Names Differences Attention Generations Creation Divine Draws Men And Women Sake Gender Ideology Opposition Communion Subordinates Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Pope Francis

“A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.”

“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.”

Thinking Men Different States Problem Seems Able Differences Mistake College He Man Brother My Brother Sameness

Author:Zadie Smith

“It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.”

Men Should Doe Wisdom Eye Differences Wonder Wise Wonderful Sight His Eyes Latter Unusual Usual Unwise Neurologists

Book:A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between a living and a dead body is, that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction, which draws them asunder and scatters them through space. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to conceive such a thing as death where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy.”

Source: Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)

“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.”

Men Mind Mean Two Ideas Different Language Differences Produce Variety Characteristics Inadequate Different Minds

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.”

Knows Men Mean Character Age Individual Differences Moral Greatness Revolution Intellectual Crowds Discrimination One Man Fallacy Superstitious Imprinting

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.”

Men Differences Poor Rich Please Eating Former Latter Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.”

Men May Important Hands Differences Greater Feet Apes Resemblance Gorillas Hands And Feet

Author:Thomas Huxley

“It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.”

Thinking Men Differences Judgment Ill Affection Rage Heat Contradiction Remarkable Resentment Begets Ill Will

Author:Cato the Younger

“They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.”

“I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.”

Men Mind Believe Form Fall I Believe Differences Ideals Appearance Manners Reasonable Exterior Authorship Physical Appearance Reasonable Man

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.”

Men Differences Equal Equality Comparison One Man

Book:Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus

“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”

Ifs Men May Doe Play Jobs Individual Differences Work Views Pay Example Depends Taste Labor Workers Point Of View Gardener Manuals Clerks Laborers Cobblers

Author:W. H. Auden

“All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.”

Thinking Men Littles Causes Differences Ability Weakness Importance Infinite Stupidity Distinction One Man Organs Mistaken Ugliness

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.”

Thinking Men Looks Book Energy Differences Deals Existence Impossible Scene Resources Spots Former Latter Employed Visionaries Sunny

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.”

“American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Social feminists [in Europe]believe that men and society at large should provide systematic support to women in recognition of their dual role as mothers and workers.”

Men Way Should Believe Mother Social Women Differences Roles Support Feminism Equal Men And Women Europe Workers Feminist Recognition Stressed Systematic

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.”

“All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.”

Men Differences Pride Proud Method

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.”

Men Love Differences Without Love

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

Men Life Motivational Differences Animal History Laughing Human Nature Ought Laughter Pet Miscellaneous Humans And Animals

Author:William Hazlitt

“What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.”

Men Together Differences He Man Theory Quiet Faults Scare Hunters Get Together Hunted Hunter Gatherers Bison

Author:Jenna McCarthy

“I've always been asked the question, "What is it with Australian men?" It's weird because most of my friends here [in the United States] are American men. I think there's cultural differences. It's a really American thing to kind of wax your chest. As a man it's like, "Get rid of that unsightly hair!" In Australia it's like, "Mate, what are you doing? Why would you do that? Doesn't that hurt?" So there's a few little differences that keep us.”

Thinking Men Kind Littles States Differences Hurt United United States Hair My Friends Australia Chests Mates Australian Cultural Differences

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.”

Men Term Differences Views Style Taste International

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference between Him and all other men is not merely quantitative, but qualitative. He is in a category all to Himself.”

Men Persons Jesus Christ Differences Perfect Jesus Christ Admire Comparison Categories Qualitative Perfect Person

Author:Paul Washer

“The feminists are trying to tell women that there is really no difference between them and men. Just as men can be promiscuous, women can, too, and go for one night stands without consequences. But there are consequences. The women have the suffering of the abortion. They suffer more with the social diseases.”

Men Trying Night Suffering Social Differences Disease Consequence Feminist Abortion One Night One Night Stand Promiscuous

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.”

“I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best.”

Knows Men Years Made Used Three Differences My Own Meetings Corners Used To Be Fantastic Massive Three Years Very Happy Around The Corner Good Place Hoping For The Best Happy With Him

Author:Anna Friel

“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.”

Men Energy Differences Ability Mere One Man

Author:Tom Arnold

“Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.”

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.”

Men Differences Deals Records Ears Agreement Contracts

Author:Bob Marley

“The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.”

Men Heart Made Light Inspiration Form Spirit Turns Differences Church Wall Truth Is Stones Woods Guides Temples Creeds

Author:Charles Fillmore

“Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.”

Men Needs Humor Differences Memories Ought Wit Bitterness Veins Satirical

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts May Wish Differences Ability Doubt Achievement Accomplish Every Man Unlimited

Book:Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

“If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.”

Ifs Men Science Differences Study Hair Wit

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

“The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.”

Men Self Christ Differences Grace Seeing Glory Ultimate Delight Supreme Treasure Relate Sufficient Dependent Glory Of God God's Grace Self Sufficient Resourceful

Author:John Piper

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.”

Men Made Differences Education Greater Brutes

Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.”

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Author:John Locke

“For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?”

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Author:Lillian Smith

“In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.”

Men Humans Philosophy Character Use Humanity Three Natural Differences Knowledge Divine All Things Arise Contemplation Inquiry Penetrate Power Of God Natural Philosophy

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.”

Men Doe Understanding Natural Differences Habit Arise Faculty

Book:Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book

Source: Of human understanding. A defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of common-place-book

“I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.”

Thinking Men Should Speak Differences Opinion Conversation Opposition Discourse Dissent Differences Of Opinion

Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume