Man Quotes
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For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
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Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
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Come on, man, I got a full beard!
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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.
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The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
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Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
