„Bring down a man and be the man“

— E.M.S
„Don't let the man bring you down.“
— Maya Angelou
„Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God.“
— Meister Eckhart
„You have all heard the old bromide to the effect that man has his eyes on the stars and his feet in the mud. It is usually taken to mean that man's reason and his physical senses are the element pulling him down to the mud while his mystical, super-rational emotions are the element that lifts him to the stars. This is the grimmest inversion of many in mankind's history. But, last summer, reality offered you a literal dramatization of the truth. It is man's irrational emotions that bring him down to the mud. It is man's reason that lifts him to the stars.“
— Ayn Rand