Quotes
Quotes about Man
Is not every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
Man: a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
