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If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men is rights are nothing more. Women is rights are nothing less.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

There is no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

If it is true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I have also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just is not worth the time and effort.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.