“Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is.”

“If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.”

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”

“The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.”

“A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.”

“Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.”

“What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.”

“Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.”

“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”