Juliet Marillier book Wildwood Dancing
Variant: If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
Source: Wildwood Dancing
Phantastes (1858)
Context: All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.
Juliet Marillier book Wildwood Dancing
Variant: If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
Source: Wildwood Dancing
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
"Helen's Exile" (1948)
Context: Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen
Context: I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.
“No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
Country Town Sayings (1911), p62.
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
It's a Man's Man's Man's World, written with Betty Jean Newsome, from It's a Man's Man's Man's World (1966)
Song lyrics
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
Interview (23 September 1966), published posthumously in Der Spiegel (31 May 1976), as translated by William Richardson in Risk and Meaning, Nicolas Bouleau (translated by Dené Oglesby and Martin Crossley), ed. Springer, 2011 ISBN 978-3-642-17646-3, page 102.