Man Quotes

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

Man is something to be surpassed.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

The free man is a warrior.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep - into the evil.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

The sexes deceive themselves over one another: this happens because fundamentally they honour and love only themselves... Hence man wants woman to be peaceful-but woman, like a cat, is essentially not peaceful, however much she may have practised an appearance of peacefulness.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Maturity in a man: that means having found once again the seriousness which man had as a child, in play.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].