Quotes About Man

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

I could never drive in a great big car people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.

This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied out drama of manners. Every man is in himself all humanity, and if he writes what occurs to him he succeeds better than if he copies, with the help of a magnifying glass, objects placed outside of him.

Confusion is a wilfully induced state of mind. we can enter or exit it at will. Man deliberately confuses himself in order to plead ignorance.

Average man is ever seeking refuge in failure so that he can surrender on the terms of his reason, but it is not possible to fake failure or triumph.

Freedom of mind is the ultimate prove of persistence." A person, whose mind is not free though he may not be in prison, he is a prisoner and not a free man

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become a cliché.

A man may despise himself for being as he is, but that does not absolve him of the responsibility for being as he is.

The study of the form is the betting man's philology, philosophy, science, and literary criticism all rolled into one.

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Brooding on God, I may become a man.Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.

Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.

The real meaning of revolution is not a change in management … but a change in man.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.

This would be an outrageous cay man

Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

At the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad about his admission of a studied shallowness, a penchant for the one-dimensional. It made her long all the more for her midnight man. Eddie

Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.