Man Quotes
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
