2,613 Quotes About Man

Man is not content to be man. But he doesn’t know what to revert to, nor how to recover a state of which he has no clear memory. His nostalgia for it is the basis of his being, and it is by such nostalgia he communicates with all that remains of what is oldest in himself.

A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always wants to see more. A woman understands darkness and shadows

It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.

The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.

The spirit of a man is lamp of God, once the lamp has not been extinguish, you must keep burning to give light.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

The quality of man, when at risk and in danger, are of worth, and of woman, her qualities in all other instances; to be of both, to have identity, yet to serve with all capabilities, more better than few, and those working better than those not, and expand being comfortable with all and every role – yes, those of man, when the world falls apart, but the man exists in all and the woman also. Fabrications, all can fight and all will.

The man when presented to a woman does not value her. A woman when introduced to the man values him. What would a tamer do?