Quotes
Quotes about Man
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedomsâto choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Beware the fury of the patient man.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Of course, it's possible to love a human beingâif you don't know them too well.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
A man's style in any art should be like his dress--it should attract as little attention as possible.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
