Man Quotes
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A man who runs away from death will run into death.
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[On his father] He was a man of another age, really, holding a set of values that differed in essence from those that most men hold today. The son of a pioneer settler, he grew up believing along with most of the men of his world that a man’s physical strength was his measure.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
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Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold
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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.
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Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
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Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
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“Better to be a man and respected like a king, than to be a king respected by no man”
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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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God became man so that man might become a god.
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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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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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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 childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
