Quotes About Man

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself.

Byrd anticipated the crisis of loneliness. What he had not counted on was how closely a man could come to dying and still not die or want to die.

Yet in my rural town I almost never run into anyone on my nightly walks—except for one eccentric, a man everyone calls Jogger John.

If a man without a woman, as it says in a passage in the Talmud dear to the heart of Kafka, is not a man, then it is Amshel who became a man, even though on the point of death, but it is Franz who narrates this odyssey and teaches us how to become Amshel, how to become a man.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a man's man.

These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Then each family circle gathers at the hearthstone and the pups sit silently and listen and when the story's done they ask many questions: "What is Man?" they'll ask. Or perhaps: "What is a city?" Or: "What is a war?

Race preservation is a myth … a myth that you all have lived by—a sordid thing that has arisen out of your social structure. The race ends every day. When a man dies the race ends for him—so far as he's concerned there is no longer any race.

IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN STAY AS HE IS, THEN TREAT HIM AS HE IS. IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN CHANGE, THEN TREAT HIM AS THE PERSON YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO BECOME.

A job is a home to a homeless man.

The worth of a man is usually co-existing with a woman. The worth of a woman is solely dependent on herself.

There is no evil in a man's mind, only temptation.

There's hate in the word earth. But the art, heart and heat of man's compassion can never be replaced by hate.

If you save your breath, I feel like a man you can manage.

A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods.

Man and Superman: "the audience gets an exhausting idea of the inexhaustibility of the subject, and is bored brilliantly.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

elle ne pouvait pas comprendre que l'humeur sensuelle d'un homme est une saison brève, dont le retour incertain n'est jamais un recommencement.

There is no premature death for a man utterly dedicated to conquest, solitude and vain flight: he is always at an age to die

Evil, he had come to believe, was controllable as long as man had the strength of will to believe in himself.

A man is little use when his wife's a widow. - Scottish Proverb

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife

A man is little use when his wife's a widow. Scottish proverb

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

title of many of his books and ultimately his autobiography: Models of Man (1957), Models of Discovery (1977), Models of Thought (1979 and 1989), Models of Bounded Rationality (1982), and Models of My Life (1991).