Quotes on Men

The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.