Short Memorable Quotes About Man (Page 2 of 2)
Man is the measure of all things.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is therefore an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
