Quotes About Man

The city is the teacher of the man.

the goods of he earth remain the earth's, and man does not own even the skin he is wrapped in. All he owns are the feelings of his heart.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

The city is teacher of the man.

Karl Barth once wittily remarked, "One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.

E era apenas o contraste dessas duas entidades: o Ser e a Sombra, a Luz e as Trevas, que impressionara o jovem com a diferença que havia entre elas, ou seja, o homem e o sobre-humano.

It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

I know my life's a pain, and but a span;I know my sense is mocked in ev'ry thing:And to conclude, I know myself a man,Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself

Man worships self: his God is Man; the struggling of the mortal mind To form its model as 'twould be, the perfect of itself to find.

Is not man born with a love of change an Englishman to be discontented an Anglo-Indian to grumble?

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.

Men that look no farther than their outside, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I, that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.And everyone will say,As you walk your flowery way,"If he's content with a vegetable love, which would certainly not suit me,Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!"

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.

Companies claimed to be highly responsive, Jennifer thought, but you only had to chase a screaming man through their offices to realize it wasn't true.

It is easier, as Michelet suggested, for a woman to change her opinion of a man than for him to change his opinion of himself.

The gods can make a man ridiculous through a woman, but they cannot make him ridiculous when they deal him a blow direct. The very greatness of their power makes them, in that respect, impotent.