Men Quotes

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.

So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.