Quotes About Man

The meaning of life must be conceived in terms of the specific meaning of a personal life in a given situation. Each man is unique, after all, and each man's life is singular; no one is replaceable nor is his life repeatable. This twofold uniqueness adds to man's responsibleness.

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of a meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather, he must recognize that - It is he that who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life, and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life. To life, he can only respond by being responsible.

I have met the town idiot, who declares that all the automobiles in the world are of less value than a single human life. I have met the most harmless inhabitant of Pine Beach: a wise man.

It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…

But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon's battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear; some turn to flee, as of old they sought the ships; some raise a shout – faintly; the cry essayed mocks their gaping mouths.

do the gods light this fire in our hearts 220 or does each man's mad desire become his god?

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Did nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began? With equal complacence she saw his misery, condoned his meanness and acquiesced in his torture.

At last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but blackness there too. Ruin and death, he thought, cover all. The life of man ends in the grave. Worms devour us. Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn Ã¢â'¬â€

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man

I am a very boring and unpleasant man, drowned in literature... But I love you.

Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

Although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place.

Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.

Tao is the storehouse of all things.It is the good man's treasure and the bad man's refuge.

Let's just say that my father is a very powerful man." "That's a little understated, don't you think? … You know, seeing how he's the Grim fucking Reaper.

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.

Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

Non possiamo illuderci che la natura abbia una capacità illimitata di riparare ai guasti che l'uomo le infligge.