2,613 Quotes About Man

As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that’s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.

Sex isn’t the only way a man can love you.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)