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Quotes About Man

Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.
~ Helen Rowland
The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.
~ Ernest Holmes
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
~ J. C. Watts
Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
~ Confucius
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
~ Joni Mitchell
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can No, no man can...
~ Joni Mitchell
How could the nature of man ever reach its full potential without challenge and danger? How dull and contemptible would we become if there was no longer reason to pay attention? Maybe God thought His new creation would be able to handle the serpent, and considered its presence the lesser of two evils.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Gender is constructed, but an individual who desires gender re-assignment surgery is to be unarguably considered a man trapped in a woman's body (or vice versa).
~ Jordan B. Peterson
After all, if you're not the leading man in your own drama, you're a bit player in someone else's—and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Only man will inflict suffering for the sake of suffering. That is the best definition of evil I have been able to formulate.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
He then creates Man and Woman in His Image, imbuing them with the capacity to do the same—to create order from chaos, and continue His work.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? (Mark 8:36)
~ Jordan B. Peterson
He posited that a new kind of man—the Übermensch (the higher person or superman)—would be necessary in the aftermath of the death of God, so that society would not drift toward the opposing rocky shoals of despair and oversystematized political theorizing.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the "man" thing! I'd have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
Minha cara, enxaqueca de viúva é falta de homem na hora de dormir. Tem remédio fácil, compra-se com o casamento… — Casamento? Deus me livre e guarde… — Também não é obrigatório… Pode tomar o remédio sem casar, o que não falta por aí é homem, minha cara — e ria tagarela.
~ Jorge Amado
since it needs a singularly large dose of goodwill to believe that the governing classes are respectable and that the lower classes are worthy of assistance or compassion, it seems to me,' des Esseintes concluded, 'to be neither ridiculous nor insane to ask of my fellow man a sum total of illusion barely equal to that which he spends each day on his idiotic purposes,
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Man asks himself: what is this solitary thing that remains to me—my life, my disillusioned life? How has it come to being nothing but this? And the answer is the discovery of man's trajectory, of the dialectical series of his experiences, which, I repeat, though it might have been different, has been what it has been, and which must be known because it is... the transcendent reality.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
La función capital del hombre mediocre es la paciencia imitativa; la del hombre superior es la imaginación creadora.
~ José Ingenieros
Por qué no tendemos al hombre sin ideales sobre nuestra mesa de autopsias, hasta saber qué es, cómo es, qué hace, qué piensa, para qué sirve?
~ José Ingenieros
Si observamos cualquier sociedad humana, el valor de sus componentes resulta siempre relativo al conjunto: el hombre es un valor social.
~ José Ingenieros
La historia no se ocupa del pasado. Le pregunta al pasado cosas que le interesan al hombre vivo.
~ José Luis Romero