Man Quotes
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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.
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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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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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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
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The man of the past.
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
