“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
6 November 2006 http://www.rooshv.com/womanly-advice
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Walter Kaufmann book Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Source: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1951), p. 151
Context: There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
[God and the Universe: Eddington, Jeans, Huxley, & Einstein, 128, 1931, Pioneer Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=QmBHAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=happier]
Henry Ford book My Life and Work
Source: My Life and Work (1922), Chapter XII, Money - Master or Servant
Christian Homburg (1962) German academic
Source: "A configurational perspective on key account management", 2002, p. 46
David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker
Alex Jones in the 2009 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpscVMiuTVY with Icke (starts at 1:00) <br class="br">About Icke
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (2004), as quoted at The Buffett http://www.thebuffett.com/quotes.html