the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.

Every one of my acts commits me as a man. Every one of my silences, every one of my cowardices reveals me as a man.

A man is what he wills himself to be.

[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The last clear definite function of men — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

Every man is a new method.