Man Quotes
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
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The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
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There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
