Quotes About Man

Ben had the face of a man who could murder someone in the middle of a crowd, and then talk his way out of it while cleaning the blood off the knife.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can accept or reject as we wish, it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

As long as on the earth endures his life To deal with him have full and free permission; Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife.

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.

Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

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.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Remember nothing of the sort! Built by faith indeed! That simply means the workmen weren't paid properly. And as for the frescoes, I see no truth in them. Look at that fat man in blue! He must weigh as much as I do, and he is shooting into the sky like an air- balloon.

but it seemed iniquitous that anyone should mispronounce the name of the man who was more to him than all the world

Morals meant the advent of tranquility, and tranquility meant the end of revolutionary fervor. Therefore, the state must promote immorality. Given man's natural and inordinate inclination to pleasure, the immorality most congenial to manipulation is sexual immorality. Hence the revolutionary state must promote sexual license if it is to remain truly revolutionary and retain its hold on power.

Since man is a rational creature, he can only attain freedom through the exercise of his reason, something more difficult in the primitive state than in civilization.

Once Europe turned away from Christ, it had to turn to the City of Man. That meant that Libido Dominandi became its constitution.

If you happen to see a young man named Liam, please tell him that Princess Annie is in this tower and needs to be rescued." "Rescue yourself!