Man Quotes

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and – as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis – emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.