Man Quotes
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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
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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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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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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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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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A man must look to the muddy pit wherefrom was taken the clay that moulds him.
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
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In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
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Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.
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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.
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Each man has his own batch of poems.
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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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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.
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...the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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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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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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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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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
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A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.
