Quotes about men
men thinking mirrors
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. Octavio Paz
men language disappear
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
men able myth
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
men thinking doe
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
men solitude growth
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests. Novalis
men epic dramatic
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
men hands heaven
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.
men sun planets
Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.
men literature married
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
men scripture individual
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
men skinny giants
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man. Norton Juster
men live-for-others he-man
The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success. Norman Vincent Peale
men risk everest
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
men thinking principles
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
men self way
Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
men
Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love... Emilie Autumn
men order together
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society Emile M. Cioran
men needs appetite
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
men long soul
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
men robots defects
Man is a robot with defects.
men ideas grudge
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
men tasks solitary
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
men saint fascination
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
men evil-people order
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
men lasts relief
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
men long madness
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
men genius mediocrity
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
men feet paradise
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
men saving paradise
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
men alive miserable
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
men starting-over everyday
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
men hands might
You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too. Ellen Hollman
men dignity life-is
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf