Man Quotes
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What man lacks most is will, constancy of will. Man works to earn his living, and when he finishes his day … He wants to sleep. He is lazy where public things are concerned. We let catastrophes come, we let them ripen. They don’t come because men want them to; they come because men want to sleep. ‘We can’t do anything about it. If it must happen, better not to know about it. Humanity has always been severely threatened. The threats are not diminishing. But one must sleep, after all. Sleep.
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No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
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Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
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A man of the utmost insignificance.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
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Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.
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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
