Quotes About Man

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one's view of the nature and destiny of man.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.