logo

Quotes About Man

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
~ Maxim Gorky
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
~ Rudolf Arnheim
It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.
~ Samael Aun Weor
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
~ Saul Bellow
The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.
~ Simon Soloveychik
Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.
~ Subhash Kak
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
~ Thomas Campbell
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.
~ Thomas Jefferson
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
~ William Faulkner
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
~ William Faulkner
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
~ Raheel Farooq
God calls a man, 'man' only if he identifies himself with God's values ad stands for truth and justice
~ Sunday Adelaja
this IS the time when man must be Free.
~ Sushil Singh
No man can outrun Logic or Time.
~ Anonymous
I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.
~ Émile Zola
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
~ Richard Russo
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
~ Madame de Stael
This is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is the love of a man or of a woman for their world. For the world of their centre where their lives burn genuinely and with a free flame.
~ Mervyn Peake
Titus watched Keda's face with his violet eyes, his grotesque little features modified by the dull light at the corner of the passage. There was the history of man in his face. A fragment from the enormous rock of mankind. A leaf from the forest of man's passion and man's knowledge and man's pain. That was the ancientness of Titus.
~ Mervyn Peake
He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.
~ Michael Chabon
He checks with the mandolin man on the roof; there is always a man on the roof with a semiautomatic mandolin.
~ Michael Chabon
One of the fundamental axioms of masculine self-regard is that the tools and appurtenances of a man's life must be containable within the pockets of his jacket and pants. Wallet, keys, gum, show or ball game tickets, Kleenex, condoms, cell phone, maybe a lighter and a pack of cigarettes: Just cram it all in there, motherfucker.
~ Michael Chabon
man coming toward him over the ice, watching
~ Michael Chabon