Man Quotes
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.
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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
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Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
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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.
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You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease. "You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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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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If you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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Is an unwieldy ill; a man with a loose Tongue is indeed a child with a knife.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
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The man of the past.
