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Man Quotes

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes his life activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.

Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.