Man Quotes
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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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Woful was the proof that man, if unrestrained, if left to his own devices, is not merely incapable of recovering his innocence, but will rush madly down the steep of sensuousness and impious self-will until he finds himself engulphed in the abyss of perdition. The trial of freedom had failed: the second of the ages was ended.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
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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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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.
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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
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The best thing in the world is a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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God became man so that man might become a god.
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A man with a soul is not like every other man.
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
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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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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
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If we want to pick the point where a man’s sexual appeal has reached its limit, it’s there: forty.
