
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Maxim 584
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Context: Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him? The man who asked this question was called a traitor. Others asked by what right does a robed hypocrite rule my thought? Such men were called infidels. The priest said, and the king said, where is this spirit of investigation to stop? They said then and they say now, that it is dangerous for man to be free. I deny it. Out on the intellectual sea there is room enough for every sail. In the intellectual air there is space enough for every wing.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Part I. Généralités (Generalities), Chapter I. Prolégomènes (Prolegomena).
Treatise on Elegant Life (1830)
Original: (fr) Or les trois classes d'être créés par les mœurs sont :
L'homme qui travaille ;
L'homme qui pense ;
L'homme qui ne fait rien.
“A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.”
"On Eating and Drinking".
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism