Marcel Wanders Quotes

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

People tend to simplify things.

Italians think with their heads.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.