Ordinary Man Quotes

78 quotes by 63 authors

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important… — Rajneesh
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Lewis Henry Steiner
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The… — Paramahansa Yogananda
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money… — Benjamin Franklin
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them… — Abraham Maslow
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. — D. H. Lawrence
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without… — Richard Bach
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be… — Augustine Birrell
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I… — William Shakespeare
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he… — Rex Harrison
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems… — Sarada Devi
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain… — Josiah Wedgwood
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley

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