"Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly."

-- P.D. Ouspensky

#Men Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and Ideas for Doherty Men: Papers, Addresses and Letters”
“Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?”
“When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
“There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?”

Source : Diana Peterfreund (2009). “TAP & GOWN (EBK)”, p.264, Delta
“In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as I am, he would have made mixtapes for his movies instead of letting some schmuck write the soundtracks for him. But then if he were as talented as I am, he'd be Zach Braff. And have his own Grammy.”
“You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.”
“I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.”

Source : Source: observer.com

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