Quotes About Human

Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.