Man Quotes
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius -
I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius -
There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde -
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
Thomas A. Edison -
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
Socrates
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A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
Henry Ward Beecher -
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
Sigmund Freud -
“Glazed brick, white mortar, and blue roof-tiles do not make a house beautiful; carved rosewood, gold cloth, and clear green jade do not furnish a house with grace; a man of cultivated mind makes a house of mud and wattle beautiful; a woman, even with a pock-marked face; if refined of heart, fills a house with grace. -House of Exile”
Nora Waln -
If you want a man that respects the way you think then show more mind than ass.
David Banner -
If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has nothing to offer you.
Courtney Milan
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
Socrates -
Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
Adelard of Bath -
The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.
Lao Tzu -
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm
William Shakespeare -
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only I thought I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
Burton Rascoe -
I thank God for making me a man.
Little Richard
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
Confucius