Quotes about man
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P.G. Wodehouse photo

“Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.”

Sunset at Blandings (1977 (posthumously published))

Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo
John F. Kennedy photo
Gertrude Breslau Hunt photo
Antonin Scalia photo

“What if I am an aficionado of bullfights and I think, contrary to the animal cruelty people, that they ennoble both beast and man. I would not be able to market videos showing people how exciting a bullfight.”

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

The Human Sacrifice Channel? Crush-Video Arguments Get Creative http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/10/07/the-human-sacrifice-channel-crush-video-arguments-get-creative/ Wall Street Journal, (Oct, 2008).
2000s

Ilana Mercer photo

“Look at Jared Kushner. The poor man looks low T—like he might one day go the way of Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner. (I love LGBTQ, so long as they come in peace.) Jared's not wearing the pants in the Kushner castle. The beguilingly beautiful Ivanka is.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

"What Ivanka wants, Ivanka gets." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/what_ivanka_wants_ivanka_gets.html American Thinker, April 13, 2017
2010s, 2017

Percy Bysshe Shelley photo

“He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe.”

Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 72
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

Finley Peter Dunne photo

“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case.”

Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) author

Casual Observations http://books.google.com/books?id=rTUPAAAAYAAJ&q="A+fanatic+is+a+man+that+does+what+he+thinks+th'+Lord+wud+do+if+He+knew+th'+facts+iv+th'+case"&pg=PA258#v=onepage, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (1900)

H.L. Mencken photo
Diogenes Laërtius photo

“Xenophanes speaks thus:
And no man knows distinctly anything,
And no man ever will.”

Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers

Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics

Boris Sidis photo

“The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.”

Boris Sidis (1867–1923) American psychiatrist

Philistine and Genius (1919)

Joseph Smith, Jr. photo

“Element had an existence from the time he [God] had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had no beginning, and can have no end.... [T]he mind of man — the immortal spirit. Where did it come from? All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation. I do not believe the doctrine; I know better. Hear it, all ye ends of the world; for God has told me so... We say that God himself is a self-existent being. Who told you so? It is correct enough; but how did it get into your heads? Who told you that man did not exist in like manner upon the same principles? Man does exist upon the same principles. God made a tabernacle and put a spirit into it, and it became a living soul.... The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is [co-eternal] with God himself. I know that my testimony is true... Is it logical to say that the intelligence of spirits is immortal, and yet that it had a beginning? The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither will it have an end. That is good logic. That which has a beginning may have an end. There never was a time when there were not spirits; for they are [co-eternal] with our Father in heaven.... I take my ring from my finger and liken it unto the mind of man—the immortal part, because it has no beginning. Suppose you cut it in two; then it has a beginning and an end; but join it again, and it continues one eternal round. So with the spirit of man. As the Lord liveth, if it had a beginning, it will have an end. All the fools and learned and wise men from the beginning of creation, who say that the spirit of man had a beginning, prove that it must have an end; and if that doctrine is true, then the doctrine of annihilation would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house-tops that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all. God himself could not create himself.”

History of the Church, 6:308-309 (7 April 1844)
1840s, King Follett discourse (1844)

Tom Waits photo

“If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

"Misery is the River of the World", Blood Money (2002).

“In our constant struggle to believe we are likely to overlook the simple fact that a bit of healthy disbelief is sometimes as needful as faith to the welfare of our souls. I would go further and say that we would do well to cultivate a reverent skepticism. It will keep us out of a thousand bogs and quagmires where others who lack it sometimes find themselves. It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything. Faith is at the root of all true worship, and without faith it is impossible to please God. Through unbelief Israel failed to inherit the promises. “By grace are ye saved through faith.” “The just shall live by faith.” Such verses as these come trooping to our memories, and we wince just a little at the suggestion that unbelief may also be a good and useful thing. … Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything. Faith engages the person and promises of God and rests upon them with perfect assurance. Whatever has behind it the character and word of the living God is accepted by faith as the last and final truth from which there must never be any appeal. Faith never asks questions when it has been established that God has spoken. 'Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar' (Rom. 3:4). Thus faith honors God by counting Him righteous and accepts His testimony against the very evidence of its own senses. That is faith, and of such we can never have too much. Credulity, on the other hand, never honors God, for it shows as great a readiness to believe anybody as to believe God Himself. The credulous person will accept anything as long as it is unusual, and the more unusual it is the more ardently he will believe. Any testimony will be swallowed with a straight face if it only has about it some element of the eerie, the preternatural, the unearthly.”

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary

Source: The Root of the Righteous (1955), Chapter 34.

Horace photo

“He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."”
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro."

Horace book Odes

Book III, ode xxix, line 41
John Dryden's paraphrase:
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)

Albert Einstein photo

“Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)

“You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky.”

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

Warren Farrell photo
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon photo
Owen Lovejoy photo

“The principle of enslaving human beings because they are inferior, is this. If a man is a cripple, trip him up. If he is old and weak, and bowed with the weight of years, strike him, for he cannot strike back. If idiotic, take advantage of him, and if a child, deceive him. This, sir, this is the doctrine of Democrats and the doctrine of devils as well, and there is no place in the universe outside the five points of hell and |the Democratic Party where the practice and prevalence of such doctrines would not be a disgrace.”

Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) American politician

As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=%22The+principle+of+enslaving+human+beings+because+they+are+inferior%22&source=bl&ots=YA6W9JoaPr&sig=aO15r4OJEVD8bQUIjM34u42GjXg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM9vuXwsrLAhWJeD4KHWvpAUcQ6AEIHjAB#v=onepage&q=%22The%20principle%20of%20enslaving%20human%20beings%20because%20they%20are%20inferior%22&f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 193
1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)

Muhammad photo
Wallace Stevens photo

“Man is an eternal sophomore.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

Marcus Manilius photo

“Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.”
Impendendus homo est, deus esse ut possit in ipso.

Book IV, line 407.
Astronomica

L. Ron Hubbard photo

“When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104

Pierre-Jean de Béranger photo
Hannah Senesh photo
James Beattie photo

“He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.”

James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher

The Hermit

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester photo

“For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm

An allusion to Horace, Satire x. Book i. Compare: "Thou best-humour'd man with the worst-humour'd muse!", Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation, Postscript.
Other

China Miéville photo
Ossip Zadkine photo
Henry Fairfield Osborn photo
Joseph Addison photo
Hermann Hesse photo
Rudy Giuliani photo

“Don’t you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman, and the only thing she’s ever produced is a lot of work for the FBI checking out her e-mails.”

Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City

October 2, 2016, on ABC's This Week
Source: 'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Bernie Sanders" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-rudy-giuliani-sen-bernie-sanders/story?id=42496702. ABC News. 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2016-10-02.

Jeff Flake photo
Voltairine de Cleyre photo
Orson Scott Card photo
Ayn Rand photo
Marcus Brigstocke photo
John Prescott photo
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton photo
Ursula K. Le Guin photo
Aron Ra photo

“I was a young man in the ’80s, and I was into medieval weapons, Harleys and Heavy Metal. I even played D&D back when that was supposed to induct players into real-life witchcraft. So I remember all the ridiculous superstition surrounding the secret meanings of ear piercing, the pseudo-paganism of Procter & Gamble, the seemingly Satanic messages in back-masking, and the allegedly suicidal insinuations of some metal albums. I attribute a lot of that to the fact that atheism didn’t have any appreciable presence back then. In those days, if you didn’t buy into Christian dogma and were openly critical of it, then you were a witch. You were either a neo-pagan or (more likely) you were Satanic. The latter would be applied regardless how you might prefer to identify. To my cultural experience, there was no such thing as a skeptic as that is known today. Back then, skeptics were considered cynics who refused to open their minds. It must have been a great time for paranoid Christian conservatives. They actually like Satanists a lot more than atheists. Because Satanists not only play the Christian game; they give Christians the moral high ground. Whereas atheists piss everybody off by pointing out that it is a game and that every believer in any religion is just pretending.”

Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast

Patheos, Satanic Panic and Exorcism in Schools? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2016/09/21/satanic-panic-and-exorcism-in-schools/ (September 21, 2016)

Tad Williams photo

“What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?”

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 287)

H. G. Wells photo
Sarada Devi photo

“The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 253]

David Dixon Porter photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo

“Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.”

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 69, “Wind or Women’s Fancy” (p. 512)

Wendy Doniger photo
Muhammad photo
J. William Fulbright photo
H. Rider Haggard photo
Jack Vance photo
William Kingdon Clifford photo
James Fitzjames Stephen photo
Robert Louis Stevenson photo
Theodore Dalrymple photo
Thomas Carlyle photo
Thomas Carlyle photo

“For being a man worth any thousand men, the response your Knox, your Cromwell gets, is an argument for two centuries whether he was a man at all. God's greatest gift to this Earth is sneeringly flung away.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King

Bret Harte photo

“And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.”

Bret Harte (1836–1902) American author and poet

East and West Poems, Part I, The Old Major Explains.

Ernesto Che Guevara photo
Sören Kierkegaard photo
Aron Ra photo
William Winwood Reade photo
Martial photo

“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.

VII, 73.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

Prem Rawat photo
Joseph Chamberlain photo
John Dos Passos photo
Sallust photo

“But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.

Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician

I.i.2
Epistulae ad Caesarem senem

“Our life is like to dice, which ever fall
In varying combinations; no one form
Has man's existence, but 'tis full of change.”

Alexis (-372–-270 BC) Athenian poet of Middle Comedy

Stobaeus, Florilegium, CV., 4.

Thomas Jefferson photo

“A child raised every 2. years is of more profit then the crop of the best laboring man. in this, as in all other cases, providence has made our duties and our interests coincide perfectly…. [W]ith respect therefore to our women & their children I must pray you to inculcate upon the overseers that it is not their labor, but their increase which is the first consideration with us.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

In letter to plantation manager, as quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)
Attributed

H. G. Wells photo
Carl Friedrich Gauss photo
John Harvey Kellogg photo
Karel Appel photo

“I am afraid of a new barbarism which is killing
man's freedom.”

Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet

ATV 179; p. 151
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

Josiah Gilbert Holland photo
Marguerite Duras photo

“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).

Richard Sherman (American football) photo

“You are what is keeping and making the black race look bad. Wake up fool. Do not glorify this half a man, he has worked for nothing. He chose to keep himself where he is, not the white people. It is time to take responsibility for your own actions, and not act like a stinking fool. Kids and young black men and women look at this site, and believe that they are abused. That is a bold-faced lie. It is out of the mouths of cheap thugs like you that are hurting our young and taking away the chances they have to make themselves a productive part of society. Brothers and sisters, the only slavery in America now is the one you put yourself into. Rise up like Doctor King as taught us, and be a real human being. We are all in this togehter, white and black. Peace to all, and I hope this stupid fake hate stops real soon. We are all brothers and sisters. Do not be fooled by the tyranny of evil men like this. Lift yourself up, educate yourselves, and work hard for a good life. No one owes you anything. Stand proud as a person of color, and do something meaningful with your life. I did and I am the best at what I do! Peace out, R. Sherman.”

Richard Sherman (American football) (1988) American football player

Posted on a website under the alias "RSherman25", quoted in "Richard Sherman Blasts 'Black Lives Matter' Activist" https://web.archive.org/web/20150916235759/http://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dylan-gwinn/2015/09/14/richard-sherman-blasts-black-lives-matter-activist (14 September 2015), by Dylan Gwinn, NewsBusters (2015), Reston, Virginia: Media Research Center. Sherman has said that although he agreed with some of the sentiments expressed, he did not write or say this http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/video-richard-sherman-speaks-passionately-on-black-lives-matter/.
Misattributed

“A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare,
His progress through the world is trouble and care;
And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where.
If we do well here, we shall do well there:
I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year.”

John Edwin (1749–1790) English actor

The Eccentricities of John Edwin (second edition, 1791), vol. i. p. 74. These lines Edwin offers as heads of a "sermon". Longfellow places them in the mouth of "The Cobbler of Hagenau," as a "familiar tune". See "The Wayside Inn, part ii. The Student's Tale".

Geoffrey Chaucer photo

“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”

The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
The Canterbury Tales

David Hume photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo

“A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.”

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82

Oliver Wendell Holmes photo

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician

Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 120 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Felix Frankfurter photo

“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge

Concurring, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. 162, 184 (1950).
Judicial opinions

George Friedman photo
Nelson Mandela photo
Confucius photo

“The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Doctrine of the Mean

Amir Taheri photo
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben photo

“The man dissatisfied with the world will be dissatisfied with himself, so as to be continually eaten up by his own ill humor. And in such a state of mind how can he retain health?”

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849) Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher

The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)