Man Quotes

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.