Man Quotes
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A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
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A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
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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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A silent man will die in the silence of his foolishness.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.
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'You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're a brave, compassionate, kind and content, man. That's your secret—contentment. I'm 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what it is I'm chasing.
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
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I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
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My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
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All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.
