“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.” MenWayHumansHeartAgeTodayLawDiesNamesSoundAirDogHe ManPersonalityDignityStonesBreathsVictimOur TimeExecutionersHuman Personality Author:Sadegh Hedayat
“No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.” MenHappensChangedHe ManPersonalityDrugClosetsRevealing Author:Albert Goldman
“In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist and sadistic. But this is merely another way of saying that we cannot understand the Bond books without reference to the personality, the outlook and the 'Tory imagination' of the man who wrote them, and to the time in which he wrote them; and that we cannot understand the 1950s and 1960s without some reference to them, and to him.” MenWayBookEasyImaginationCenturyHe ManPersonalityRacist21st CenturyOutlookAnother Way1960sSexistBritish HistoryElitistSadistic Author:David Cannadine
“Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.” ThinkingMenBookReadingGivenDifficultBornHe ManPersonalityStations Book:Recollections: Personal and Literary Source: Recollections: Personal and Literary
“... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.” MenQualitySituationViolenceHuman NatureHe ManPersonalityEternityViolentAfterlifeDispensable Book:A Good Man is Hard to Find Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find
“Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.” KnowsMenWayWritingSpiritLiteraturePerfectDoubtHe ManPersonalityRelationProfessionMaxEssayists Author:Virginia Woolf
“Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.” MenPersonsHas BeensArtistCreativePsychologyHe ManPersonalityMalesAverageMysteriousAverage PersonUnfathomable Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle
“The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.” MenShouldTwoEnoughActionTogetherArtistReligiousQualityLeaderHe ManPoetPersonalityInsightManagersContemplationRealisticRobustReligious Leaders Author:David Lilienthal