Man Quotes

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

Blaise Pascal

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Albert Camus

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of pleasure. That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide.

Bertrand Russell

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Henry David Thoreau

We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.

Henry David Thoreau

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Mahatma Gandhi

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Stephen King

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

Thomas Jefferson

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Victor Hugo

Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.

Thomas Carlyle

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Bertrand Russell

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Plato

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Thomas Carlyle

A man is free only when he lives in truth, and truth can be perceived only by the intellect.

Leo Tolstoy