Quotes on Men

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.