Man Quotes
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone.
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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
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There is no such thing as a fallen woman - you just need to look for the man who pushed her.
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The absurd man is he who never changes.
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To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
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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.
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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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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
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A man must look to the muddy pit wherefrom was taken the clay that moulds him.
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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.
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I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.
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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
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The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
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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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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
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I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
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The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
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Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.
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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.
