Quotes About Man

He wanted to show that man has to return to his most basic nature in order to discover his true self and that everything that is not part of that self, including property and normal social and political obligations, was a useless distraction.

All the same, Aquinas had achieved what no one had before or since: a fusion of Platonized Christianity with Aristotle's science of man. It is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. But it didn't last. Even before Aquinas's death, the old opposition would reassert itself. He would be forced to leave the University of Paris and die in his former home of Naples while the intellectual battle raged around him.

Leonardo da Vinci. His voluminous notebooks reveal his peculiar fascination with observation and invention. This is his Aristotelian side. But his famous etching of Vitruvian Man reveals his more mystical, Platonic side.

Anyone who failed to apply the test of reasoned logic to the assertions of religious dogma was denying his own nature, Berengar said, "for it is by his reason that man resembles God.

And every day,' he went on, 'we lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?

sin is an effort to gain the ecstasy and the knowledge that pertain alone to angels, and in making this effort man becomes a demon.

The idea of a man going about London haunted by the fear of meeting a young man with spectacles struck Dyson as supremely ridiculous;

I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it.

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

And this is what we call life! ? If damnation truly is eternal! Isn't the man who tries to mutilate himselfdamned then? I think I am in hell, therefore I am. It's the fault of the catechism. I'm a slave to my baptism.

Mankind is King, And Man is God! But Love is the only faith...

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be more careful of her stars than of her acorns? If indeed she has no grander aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars whereof one might haply achieve her purpose.

The covenant of grace could no more have been made by man, than he can form a bow in the clouds.

If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He of thine hand? thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man" (Job 35:7-8), but it certainly cannot affect God, who is all-blessed in Himself. "When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants" (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.

y es cierto eso que dicen? ¿Que el carácter de una mujer se muestra con más sinceridad cuando baila? ?A veces. Pero no más que el de un hombre

la libertad del hombre no es sino la necesidad contenida en su interior.

Respecto al vino, decía el capitán que ya tendría tiempo en la vida de beber hasta reventar, si lo quisiera, y que para eso nunca se le hacía demasiado tarde a un hombre;

Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.

A tree is known by its fruit. A man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

The voice came from the other side of the divider, an older man, bald, who wore a leather vest over a dark blue button-down shirt, like a Radio Shack manager who moonlighted as a forest brigand.

Others believe in prayer . . . . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man.

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

one of the things Man doesn't need in this Universe is for God to have a sense of humor, especially a lousy one.