Quotes on Men

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses them wisely, he can reach new heights of civilization. If he uses them foolishly, they may destroy him. Man must create the moral and legal framework for the world which will insure that his new powers are used for good and not for evil.

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I, painting from myself and to myself, _x000D_ Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame _x000D_ Or their praise either.