Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.