Quotes About Man

And the voice, the voice which I had recognized under the mask, was on its knees before me was a man ! And I began to cry... The man, still kneeling, must have understood the cause of my tears, for he said, 'It is true, Christine!... I am not an Angel, nor a genius, nor a ghost... I am Erik!

Your soul is a beautiful thing, child, replied the grave man's voice, and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift.

And when he beheld their dark sails, smutted by the burning tar that had blinded their enemy, he believed them blackened in mourning for the young man, and he threw himself down, and so perished. For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.

It had become the face of a scholar of the worst kind, of the sort of man who has studied many things hidden from common men and grown wise and corrupt. He

it seems to me that no poet can be greater than the one who announces to a man that freedom is his right.

I knew that I was a child, and that no man can be a man who is not.

For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust -The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-

He hath considered shortly, in a clause The trespas of hem bothe, and eek the cause, And althogh that his ire hir gilt accused, Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused, As thus: he thoghte wel that every man Wol helpe himself in love if that he kan, And eek delivere himself out of prisoun;

Oon of us two moste bowen, doutelees; And sith a man is moore resonable Than womman is, ye moste been suffrable.

Now malice is of two kinds; that is to say, hardness of heart in wickedness, or else the flesh of a man is so blind that he does not see that he is in Sin, or he cares not that he is in Sin, which is the hardness of the Devil. The other kind of malice is when a man wars against truth, when he knows that it is the truth.

For Seneca says, 'That man who is nourished by Fortune, she makes of him a great fool.

For if a priest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste.

One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.

The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: "All life is Yoga." (Aurobindo 1976, 4)

By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

the blood and iron ye pin your faith on fell before the spirit of man; for the spirit of man is the will of the gods.

California is a small woman saying, 'Fuck me.' New York is a large man saying, 'Fuck you!