“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
Robert Harris (1957) novelist
Source: Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
Quotes about man page 42
“Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
from Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook, ed. Dorothy Carnegie, as cited in Words of Wisdom https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671695878, William Safire & Leonard Safir, Simon and Schuster (reprint, 1990), p. 87
“If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
Jonathan Swift book Les Voyages de Gulliver
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Variant: All would live long, but none would be old.
Source: Gulliver's Travels
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
“it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"On Freedom" (1940), p. 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Context: This freedom of communication is indispensable for the development and extension of scientific knowledge, a consideration of much practical import. In the first instance it must be guaranteed by law. But laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Such an ideal of external liberty can never be fully attained but must be sought unremittingly if scientific thought, and philosophical and creative thinking in general, are to be advanced as far as possible.
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge book Biographia Literaria
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XV
John F. Kennedy book Profiles in Courage
1964 Memorial Edition, p. 266 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx <br class="br">Variant: A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. <br class="br">Source: Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956) <br class="br">Context: The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. <br class="br">Context: For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men — such as the subjects of this book — have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
“You took too much man, too much, too much.”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Denis Diderot book Philosophical thoughts
As translated in Diderot (1977) by Otis Fellows, p. 39
Variant translations:
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
Source: Pensées philosophiques
Context: We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures … But what provokes me is that only their adverse side is considered … and yet only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Prisoner of Cell 25
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 38.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer
"The Cage" (Star Trek first pilot), spoken by John Hoyt as "Dr. Philip Boyce" (0:06:18) <br class="br">Cited in: Dubes 52, Surviving Katrina Before and After https://books.google.nl/books?id=wyySAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22A+man+either+lives+life+as+it+happens+to+him,+meets+it+head-on+and+licks+it,+or+he+turns+his+back+on+it+and+starts+to+wither+away%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsleOa8aHLAhUFIQ8KHdVnClIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22A%20man%20either%20lives%20life%20as%20it%20happens%20to%20him%2C%20meets%20it%20head-on%20and%20licks%20it%2C%20or%20he%20turns%20his%20back%20on%20it%20and%20starts%20to%20wither%20away%22&f=false, 2014, p. 35
“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Variant: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Source: Thoughts in Solitude
Yukio Mishima book The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Source: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”
Dmitri Shostakovich book Testimony
Page 175
Testimony (1979)
Elizabeth Goudge book Green Dolphin Street
Source: Green Dolphin Street
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper
Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”
Richard Llewellyn book How Green Was My Valley
Source: How Green Was My Valley
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ch 36 Emmeline and Cassy
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
“We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Self-Reliance
William Blake book Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 10, lines 20-21 The Words of Los
“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.”
Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Whisper
“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest
Source: Assassin's Quest
Wilson Rawls book Where the Red Fern Grows
Source: Where the Red Fern Grows
“I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.”
Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander
Source: Tatiana and Alexander
“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer
“No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: The Red Dice
“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“The most depraved type of human being… (is) the man without a purpose.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Variant: Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?
-The man without purpose.
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Where Dreams Begin
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
“The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack”
Jeffrey Archer book Best Kept Secret
Source: Best Kept Secret
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 1
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays
William James The Principles of Psychology
To his wife, Alice Gibbons James (1878)
1920s, The Letters of William James (1920)
Source: The Principles of Psychology
Context: I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
