The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
—Carl Jung
The things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding.
—J. Gresham Machen
When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs out loud.
—Laozi
I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
—Charles Dickens
“A man may go to College, he may learn all about the letter of Scripture, but he is no minister of God if he has not sat at [Christ’s] feet, and learned of him[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
—Heraclitus
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
The great aim and scope at all Christ’s ordinances and officers, are to bring men into union with Christ, and so build them up to perfection in him; or to unite them to, and confirm them in Christ.
—John Flavel
I hope we shall catch fire from each other, and that there will be an holy emulation amongst us, who shall most debase man and exalt the LORD JESUS. Only the doctrines of the Reformation can do this.
—George Whitefield
Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.
—D. L. Moody
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Socrates
I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Such should be the outward biography of a man in time, a putting off of dead circumstance day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
—Immanuel Kant
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
—Charles Darwin
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
—Aldous Huxley
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
—Mark Twain
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
—Socrates
Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
—George Washington
You should not honor men more than truth.
—Plato
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
—Charles Darwin
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
—Arthur Schopenhauer