Man Quotes
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Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.
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We next read;—“The rib which the Lord God had taken from man made He a woman.” But the last words are by no means an adequate rendering of the original, which should be translated “builded He into a woman.” And there is a remarkable coincidence in the use of such a term, and the frequent application of the words “build “ and “edify” to the Church in the New Testament.
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Do what he will, he the profane man is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being.
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If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?
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Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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She was the best business partner any man ever had.
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be.
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In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
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All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
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Morale is faith in the man at the top.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
