Man Quotes

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of himself.

Religion is for man and not man for religion.

A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

The earth, said he, has a skin, and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called man.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.