Top 1200 Renaissance Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be-it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can't mean everything, and it has always meant something.

I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

I am Mafuzzy Man, original man, 100 percent pure, man.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.