Quotes About Man

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

He was a typical British man of the fifties in that he seemed to regard any display of emotion, other than anger, as evidence of a fatal weakness of character.

Every time I caught Dee's eye – wearing an expression of weary resignation, the look of a man who had turned up again after five years to discover that things were as ridiculous as ever – I had a fit of the giggles.

He was a Beatle who thought it was a good idea to promote his new album by dancing around with a man dragged up as the Queen, for fuck's sake.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.

The sky is an enormous man.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions

The white bad man is the worst bad man of the world, and the prize-taking bad man of the lot is the Western white bad man.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.

Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator.

The more power man acquires, the more vulnerable he becomes. What he must fear most is the moment when, creation entirely fleeced, he will celebrate his triumph, that fatal apotheosis, the victory he will not survive.

La el acas?, Dumnezeu neavând ce p?zi, de necaz È™i de urât, pustieÈ™te gr?dinile omului.

In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.

Truth remains hidden to the man filled with desire and hatred" (Buddha)…. Which is to say, to every man alive.

Inelegant to reproach a man for his sterility, when that is his postulate, his mode of achievement, his dream….

The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed are those who suffer from it, who are a prey to questioning, and who can accept no given because they were born in consternation.

According to Meister Eckhart, divinity precedes God, being His essence, his unfathomable depth. What should we find at man's inmost core which defines his substance in opposition to the divine essence? Neurasthenia – which is to man what divinity is to God.