Man Quotes
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I can't not be who I am.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
