Quotes About Man

He who has once been happy is for aye Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then Holds nothing secret; and Eternity, Which is a mystery to other men, Has like a woman given him its joy.

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

Sana kar?? büyük bir sevgi besleyen, sana yard?m etmeye haz?r olan büyük adam? toplumsal ya?amdan ç?karan?n kendin oldu?unu göremiyorsun küçük adam.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

Aristippus urges us to actively manipulate what is in front of us in order to maximize our pleasure. Man is the architect of his own pleasure dome.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure." —GIACOMO LEOPARDI, ITALIAN POET AND PHILOSOPHER (1798–1837), PESSIMIST

D. T. Suzuki, the eminent scholar of Zen Buddhism, one day made this sarcastic comment on the Christian tradition to his friends, American mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychoanalyst Carl Jung: "Nature against Man, Man against Nature; God against Man, Man against God; God against Nature, Nature against God; very funny religion!

a man on a scaffold throwing a tree at another man on another scaffold.

Later, when the man saw Jesus in the temple, he told the Pharisees and they harassed Jesus because of the sabbath healing. "My Father works everyday, and so do I," Jesus replied.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

The soil of the sacred city is filled with the remnants of empires that miscalculated. Jerusalem is the city of God. But it is also a gravestone to the folly of man. – Holy Father

A very wise man once told me that hope is not an acceptable strategy when lives are at stake. - Gabriel Allon

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

Morosov then reminded Gabriel of his impeccable lineage. He was, to borrow the term coined by the Russian philosopher and writer Zinoviev, a true Homo Sovieticus—a Soviet Man.

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.

What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o'clock – similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to say pi.

This your bomb? I'm here to return it to you. Up your ass. Hey, speaking of which, you used to work with Iron Fist a lot, right? How is that 'SPEAKING OF WHICH?!!- Power man & Deadpool

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a volume of ambitious lies that he called his life, came in the door and laughed.