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Man Quotes by Walker Percy
- In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is…
- Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
- The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has…
- Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
- You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea…
- Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
- Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that,…
- Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
- Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires…
- Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met…
- For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half…
- There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
- I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at…
- What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle