Quotes About Man

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

For I showed men how they were the cause of their own unhappiness and, in consequence, how they might avoid it', writes Rousseau to Voltaire in his famous letter on the Lisbon disaster, laying the foundations of a new spirit that desacralizes nature, removing it from divine will and entrusting it to the hands of man.

The man who fights learns to pray, you know. It's a splendid Russian proverb.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

Judaism is God's quest for man.

Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.

Our future depends upon our appreciation of the reality of the inner life, of the splendor of thought, of the dignity of wonder and reverence. This is the most important thought: God has a stake in the life of man, of every man. But this idea cannot be imposed from without; it must be discovered by every man; it cannot be preached, it must be experienced.   When

The act of revelation is a mystery, while the record of revelation is a literary fact, phrased in the language of man.

As Jonathan Swift said in 1721: 'Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

but the beast was man, had always been man.

There were no monsters on Dutch Island, but the beast was man, had always been man.

Listen to me. Love yourself. That's the greatest adventure. When you love yourself, you want to find your purpose, something only you can do in the way only you can do it. Make things. Create. And if a man comes along—and believe me, he will—the relationship is already off to a good start because both of you love the same person. You. Lucky him.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars. Now

All evil was created by God to block out spirituality from the world so that man would be forced to struggle for it and therefore appreciate it more deeply.

Man (???) is meant to be God's garden, his ???????, and bring forth a unique fruit. The fruit of his labors is a life of unselfish devotion to the service of God.

Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.

Then he sat down at the table of a larger man, a man with tattoos but the old kind, before tattoos became dainty and about spiritual life. The man wore tattoos from the time when tattoos meant you liked to kick people around.

the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection while still not managing to secure it – for a range of stupid but nevertheless unbudgeable reasons...The news currently resists giving us the single most calming response one can offer to certain problems: evidence that they are normal and that they belong to a species which is intrinsically (rather than exceptionally) imperfect.

Romantic fatalism was no doubt a myth and an illusion, but that was no reason to dismiss it as nonsense. Myths may assume an importance that goes beyond their primary message, we don't have to believe in Greek gods in order to know that they tell us something vital about the mind of man.