Man Quotes
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Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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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.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby...
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
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I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.
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Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
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Until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
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I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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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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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
