Man Quotes
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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You do not hunt a man who comes looking for you," Temujin reminded him softly.
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
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The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.
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Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
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A man has a right to want to live.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
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Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
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I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
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I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
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Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
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I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
