Man - Quotes
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
A measure of a man is in the moment when he is confronted by himself.
I`ve lived long enough to know that any promise made beside the word "forever" is no more than a lie agreed upon. There is no forever. Everything moves towards its end. And the closer we get to ours, the louder that clock ticks, the less a sane man would let a promise deprive him of happiness.
Strife makes a man strong. For if a man is capable of confronting death daily, functioning in the face of it, there`s no telling what else that man can do, and a man whose limits cannot be known is a very hard man to defeat in battle.
If you`re going to cry over a man better on a private jet than on a bus.
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman`s heart.
The thought of death ought to be a lifelong occupation for every man. But this would be too great a stress for the human psyche. We have to live as if we were immortal.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can`t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.
Science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
Good friend for Jesus` sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.