Quotes About Man

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

An Angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.

The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

Who needs a French man when there is French cheese? Half as stinky and twice as smart.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.

there must be a perpetual state of tension between torment and ecstasy if man is to be projected into the infinite.

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man.

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

Delightful,' Eliza murmured. 'He looks so well against the scarlet hangings, don't you agree, Jane? One should always have a decorative young man about the room, and well-bred if one may contrive it; it lends so much tone to the display.

Everything about the man spoke of virility--his quick reaction, his calm control now that danger had passed. And she'd never seen a man wield a gun in real life--it was kind of a turn-on to know that he'd protected her. Of course he had protected everyone, but he _had_ sort of singled her out by heaving her to the floor.

I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.

Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

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.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant