Quotes About Man

Thus spoke the devil to me once: God too has his hell: it is his love of man....And most recently I heard him speak this word: God is dead: God died of his pity for man. —On the Pitying

Thus spoke the devil to me once: 'God too has his hell: it is his love of man.'...And most recently I heard him speak this word: 'God is dead: God died of his pity for man.

Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: "Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

Similar to the way in which astrologers considered the stars to be in man 's service and connected with his happiness and sorrow, such an investigator considers the entire universe in connection with man

In all ages one has wanted to 'improve' men: this above all is what morality has meant. But one word can conceal the most divergent tendencies. Both the taming of the beast man and the breeding of a certain species of man has been called 'improvement':

O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame—that is the history of man!

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.

He'd said that same day to Fani that a practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a sacrifice for others' welfare.

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to rule over the earth; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.

This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.

FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.

A man who makes himself a god must hide; otherwise his false divinity will be unmasked. But God can become a child and talk in parables and never lose His Divinity.

But this humiliation which began in Bethlehem when He was conceived in the Virgin Mary was only the first of many to counteract the pride of man, until the final humiliation of death on the Cross.

Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.

It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.