“The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life -- service for others.” MenJoyMissingHe ManMaterialsSatisfactionAccumulation Author:Edward Bok
“Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.” MenChildrenFormDealsHe ManExpectationsDisappointmentSatisfactionDeliberateKenneth Author:Randall Jarrell
“After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.” MenWantGivingYearsKindFoundFunWorkPayEnemyHe ManFellowsShiningSatisfactionFortyDislikeHarshWagesAcquaintance Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.” MenMayAttentionAttitudeModernWorstHe ManActivityIntellectualAdvantageFunctionFruitBoundsSatisfactionPursuitCommitGreekDivinityThinkerAestheticConcreteTornRespectableGlorifyBlasphemyCharterVerdictScience Love Author:Julien Benda
“It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.” KnowsMenNeedsGivingHe ManGive MeSatisfactionHillsRetirementTerrificDeep DownOver The Hill Author:Nigel Benn
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.” MenFeelsMomentsLife IsValuesAcceptingCasesCreativeHe ManBecomingWesternSatisfactionDependentFacultyFrustratedSymptomsNeuroticWorth LivingLife Is Not Worth LivingWestern Values Author:Paul Robeson
“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.” MenWellsEndsUnderstandingTakenFailingHe ManDutySolitudeSatisfactionFlyingManners Author:Edmund Burke
“MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.” MenHumansHas BeensSocialInterestChurchAnimalPowerfulAttitudeCompanyGroupsShareSecurityHe ManOrganizationUniversalSatisfactionReachingTribesClansGregarious Book:Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness