What Is Man Quotes

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

The true man breathes with his heels.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness.

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.

The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word—sin. It has crippled the nature of man . . .It has caused man to be caught in the devil’s trap.

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.

I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.