Quotes
Quotes about Man
The linguistic specialist ... is scared of the semantic element in his subject. Phonemes and morphemes cause him no difficulty, but once you start studying meaning you're into culture
We were all learning to live with our shame, an aspect of the human condition
The human imagination is capable of a terrible amount of evil
A man may be free of illness as a dog may be free of fleas, but absolute freedom is a void
Art is a division of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good
Art is a vision of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good
Man is a double creature in whom flesh contradicts spirit and instinct opposes aspirations
Revolutions are usually the work of disgruntled intellectuals with the gift of the gab ... They go to the barricades in the name of the peasant or the working man. For "intellectuals of the world unite" is not a very inspiring slogan
A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
Adam was but human-- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket--which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and--watch that basket!
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time to time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he does not feel recognized?
When a man's father is alive, look at the bent of his will. When his father is dead, look at his conduct. If for three years [of mourning] he does not change from the way of his father, he may be called filial.
At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.
A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
The superior man is broadminded but not partisan; the inferior man is partisan but not broadminded.
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
Love . . . love . . . is a preference for one man or one woman to the exclusion of all others. . .
If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them,and will yourself be injured. And so with men. It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
