Mean quotes

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.” Sigmund Freud

“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.” Billy Idol

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.” Marilyn Monroe

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” Abraham Lincoln

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” Abraham Lincoln

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” Stephen Hawking

“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.” Horace

“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.” Plato

“Man - a being in search of meaning.” Plato

“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.” Plato

“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.” Karl Marx

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” Karl Marx

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.” Karl Marx

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.” Aristotle

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.” Aristotle

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” Aristotle

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” Aristotle

“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.” Aristotle

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.” Aristotle

“Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.” Aristotle

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” Aldous Huxley

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.” Aldous Huxley

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.” Aesop