Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [. . . ] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.
There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.