Man Quotes
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
SenecaSeneca God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
Andre GideAndre Gide They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
Ignatius of LoyolaIgnatius of Loyola The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.
Karl PopperKarl Popper A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
Arthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer