Quotes about Men

I pick my nose and I’m not ashamed to admit it. If there’s a bogey then just pick it, man.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of the sun.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them

Every man is a hero of his own story.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

So far as what we call time may be reckoned by man, that period which is either a portion of the whole, or the whole, of the human race.

So true it is, that although in contemplating the political institutions of America, we should warm as benevolence loves to warm with the sight of all the blessings which these institutions shed upon man.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Now I understand,” said the last man.

The duty of every man is to endeavor to do something for the world, something which will deserve praise and gratitude.

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life.

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meager faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Man's condition, his realities, cannot be encapsulated in a concept.

Strange and harrowing must be the story which is exhausted in the first few chapters.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost an

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the hum

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I’m looking around now and I’m like, Where am I running?

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but on

Man is originally characterized by his "search for meaning" rather than his "search for himself." The more he forgets himself—giving himself to a cause or another person—the more human he is. And the more he is immersed and absorbed in something or someon

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Man is the measure of all things.

Tranquillity, in respect to man's soul, means a temperate living on all things and abstinence from none.