Quotes About Man

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to Mendelssohn.]

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!

We would get to study you, frankly," said a tall, lean man who, I kid you not, looked just like Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Mr. Lincoln's faith in God was qualified by a very well-founded distrust of the wisdom of man.

Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms—that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man—but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.

Schmucker draws a sharp distinction between Shakespeare the man and Shakespeare the poet, in what would soon be a favourite gambit of those who doubted his authorship:

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

This time the destruction was so complete... That nothing at all was left in the world Except one man And one woman And one flower

A soft finger touched his shoulder and he turned to see a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark describable beard.

Trust—a woman should trust the man she marries.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

I see what you think of me,' said he, gravely; 'I shall make but a poor figure in your journal to-morrow.' My journal!' Yes; I know exactly what you will say:- Friday went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings- plain black shoes- appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!