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Quotes About Man

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
~ Franz Grillparzer
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
~ Friedrich Schiller
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.
~ Garth Stein
Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Gary Bauer
There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
~ Gary Bauer
I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
~ Gary Busey
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
~ Gary Cole
As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.
~ Gelett Burgess
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.
~ Georg Ebers