Quotes About Man

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

George Templeton Strong, a wealthy attorney and leader of high society, missed the old man. "Osawatomie John Brown

A dog is only a dog. But a collie is – a collie. Says the scotch proverb: "A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman!

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it. Man, when he achieves an adequate level of consciousness, feels the sacred in everything around him, and the world takes on this essence. The plants, the rocks, the joke: they are sacred; these things are consecrated.

Chief Shippy stands frozen, holding his breath, exhaling with relief as the young man dies, the gun smoke slowly moving across the room, like a school of fish.

Man's desires are greater than the earth. The end of his desires only ends with his end.

None of the three, it is true, had stored much hope in Padre Cristoforo's endeavor, since for a powerful man to desist from an act of aggression without being forced to, as a mere concession to unarmed prayers, was not only rare but unheard of.

She saw no harm in letting a handsome, powerful man adore her for a while.

As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.

Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. —"On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," Ernest Hemingway, Esquire, April 1936

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

You see, I'm – a writer, A man, who calls everything by its name, And steals the aroma from a living flower.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

I am aware that a man of real merit is never seen in so favorable a light as seen through the medium of adversity.

That point is contained in the following tremendous curse fulminated against a man who committed the unpardonable offence of leaving the Church of Rome, and published grave and weighty reasons for so doing: "May the Father, who creates man, curse him! May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him!

This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of man; we seem to be transported into a world different from that which gave us birth.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has d——d few virtues. Good-day.