Quotes About Humanity

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Evils draw men together.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.