Men Quotes

I am no man, I am dynamite.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.