Quotes About Man

He was in that most blissful condition to which a powerful young man can attain—unrighteous violence in a righteous cause.

Malo, muy malo a de ser el hombre que no tenga una mujer que le llore.

Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

Multe minuni sunt pe lume dar nici una ca inima omului minunat?, el omul care pluteÈ™te dincolo de marea înz?pezit? È™i str?bate dus de vânturile aduc?toare de furtuni ale sudului.

CORO Molte potenze sono tremende ma nessuna lo è più dell'uomo.»

Let me tell you why. As a clever man once said: a treasure such as this should not be left in the hands of Philistines. And Poppy is a treasure, though she doesn't realize it . . .' I

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Reason is God's crowning gift to a man...

You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god? If all such violence goes with honor now why join the sacred dance?

does there exist, is there a man on earth who seizes more joy than just a dream, a vision?

You are my great example, you, your life your destiny, Oedipus, man of misery— I count no man blest.

Y ¿qué podría temer un hombre para quien los imperativos de la fortuna son los que le pueden dominar, y no existe previsión clara de nada? Lo más seguro es vivir al azar, según cada uno pueda.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

Even though it be true that the conception of God is absolute help, it is also the only help which is absolutely capable of revealing to man his own helplessness.

Man is the synthesis of the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.

It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!

If man were a beast or an angel, he would not be able to be in anxiety. Since he is both beast and angel, he can be in anxiety, and the greater the anxiety, the greater the man.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.