Famous quotes containing the words man and/or asked:
“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“I asked the master Yeats
Whose great style could not tell
Why it is man hates
His own salvation,
Prefers the way to hell....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)