Average Man Quotes - Page 2

• orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Average, Hug

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

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• I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Average, Identity

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• It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Artist, Men, Average

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.389, e-artnow

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• Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

  Rex Harrison

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Courage, Men

  "The Baltimore Sun" Newspaper, February 12, 1923.

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• I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Home, Average

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• The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Courage, Lying

  Notes on Democracy pt. 3 (1926)

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• The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Real, Learning

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• for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Mean, Men

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• The average man is not hard to mystify.

  Howard Thurston

  Men, Average, Magic

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• It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Years, Average

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• Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Average, Ivory Tower

  W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press

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• Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Cat, Men

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society: A Collection of Previously Published Essays”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Made

  "In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality".

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• Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Average, Voice

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• Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Character, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Power of Silence”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Men, Law

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• All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Eye, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• The average man don't like trouble and danger.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Average, Trouble

  Huckleberry Finn XXII

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• The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Winning, Thug

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

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• For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

  May Sinclair

  Men, Average, Imagination

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  E. W. Howe

  Running, Men, Average

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