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“There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.”

Men Vision Civilization Men And Women Strive Silly Counting Beans Grown Man

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.”

Men Should Strive Prize

Author:Robert Browning

“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

Men World Should Mind Body Complexes Strive Insanity Accord Insanity And Sanity

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Grows Enemy Struggle Strength Strive

Book:The Lonesome Gods

Source: The Lonesome Gods

“Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.”

Thinking Men Whole Strive Whole Life

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.”

Men Want Overcoming Longing Strive Positive Atheism Invention Fantastic

Author:Eric Hoffer

“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”

Men Matter Hell Standards Independent Strive Average Conform Abnormal Resemblance Average Man Normal And Abnormal Lexicographer

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World