Quotes About Man

Often you told me that responsibility and authority are privileges, not the rights of every man for the taking.

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,And catch the manners living as they rise:Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Say first, of God above or man below,What can we reason but from what we know?

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner thingsTo low ambition, and the pride of kings.Let us, since life can little more supplyThan just to look about us, and to die,Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

One all-extending soul connects each being, greatest with the least; made beast in aid of man, and man in aid of beast; All served, all serving; nothing stands alone; the chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown".

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

His anguished mind writhed with contradictions. He was a man of parts and halfs, in a time of wholes and absolutes.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

There has been a rediscovery of the meaning of baptism as entrance and integration into the Church, of "ecclesiological" significance. But ecclesiology, unless it is given its true cosmic perspective ("for the life of the world"), unless it is understood as the christian form of "cosmology," is always ecclesiolatry, the Church considered as a "being in itself" and not the new relation of god, man and the world.

The natural dependence of man upon the world was intended to be transformed constantly into communion with God in whom is all life.

Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

His eyes. Unclouded by cynicism, questioning but with a certainty that there were answers, warmly innocent in some strange way. A child's eyes, she thought. Even more irresistible when set in a man's face.

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

For the anthropomorphic view of the rat, American psychology substituted a rattomorphic view of man. —Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

It is not the business of a man of letters to take his politics either from a Monarch or a Mob, or to push his fortunes—slightly to alter a celebrated phrase—by those services which demagogues render to crowds.