Man Quotes
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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
John Milton
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
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That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Albert Einstein
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I think I stand where that man stands.
Abraham Lincoln
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
Abraham Lincoln
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There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.
Conn Iggulden
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.
Harry Harlow
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He who does not move with the times is a dead man...
Vicki Baum
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
Pythagoras
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I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
Blaise Pascal
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To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
Asger Jorn
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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.
Plato
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A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
Confucius
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My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
Brandon Flowers The Killers
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God.
Anthony the Great
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Albert Camus