Quotes
Quotes about Man
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
Man's life does not commence in the womb and never ends in the grave.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
Bed is the poor man's opera.
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned Englishâup to fifty words used in correct contextâno human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
