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Quotes About Man

That teaching of modern metaphysics which exhorts man to feel comparatively little esteem for the truly thinking portion of himself and to honor the active and willing part of himself with all his devotion...
~ Julien Benda
For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his atheism consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. It is the divinizing of politics.
~ Julien Benda
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
~ Julien Benda
Man is a machine and… in the whole universe there is but a single substance variously modified.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Secuencias. No sé decirlo mejor, es como una noción de que bruscamente se arman secuencias terribles o idiotas en la vida de un hombre, sin que se sepa qué ley fuera de las leyes clasificadas decide...
~ Julio Cortazar
A Lucas le parece que casi todo el mundo comparte la ignorancia de Hyde, lo que ayuda a la ciudad del hombre a guardar su orden.
~ Julio Cortazar
En konkreto, Abila Sanhes fue ombre de pensamiento y aksión, de moral i de kultura. Esto son las partidas de su aber.
~ Julio Cortazar
But does a decent man make promises just to please a woman? Isn't it more honest to refuse to?" "I don't like that sort of honesty. It's not honesty, it's lack of steadiness.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
The State Lay in wait Attica Attack Troops wearing masks carrying gas cannisters and proud to be white proud to be doing what everyone can for The Man
~ June Jordan
He's the sort of man who'll go to the airport but won't be able to get on board, she says
~ Junot Diaz
There would be no energy crisis if man knew how to effectively utilize the power inside of women!
~ Justice Calo Reign
Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say "a man" because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a man? Do I not feel as you do, suffer as you do, love as you do, mourn as you do? What is the essence of a man, if not these things?
~ Justin Cronin
way clean over in Nebraska. He'd even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, Bobby and Billy. So no matter how many times her father asked who the man
~ Justin Cronin
The memory was unpleasant; he'd taken an instant disliking to the man. Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.
~ Justin Cronin
You're not a prisoner," Wolf grated out. "So you've said ... my lord." He let out another compressed breath at her last words. "Stop that." "What?" "I am the same man I was when you called me Wolf." "No," Shaylah said, shaking her head. "You're not. You are every inch the prince now." Wolf smiled wryly. "Then why can't I get you to lie down on that bed?
~ Justine Davis
Why, when he'd been a kid . . . The mail coach arrived before Corvolo had a chance to tell Poldarn the complete history of his life, which was probably just as well. Corvolo had an amazing memory and could recall trivial conversations from thirty years ago, apparently word for word. If the coach had been even a quarter of an hour late, Poldarn was sure he'd have murdered the old man.
~ K.J. Parker
What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?
~ K?b? Abe
No man on earth deserves to taste her beauty, Her blameless loveliness and worth, Unless he has fulfilled man's perfect duty— And is there such a one on earth?
~ K?lid?sa
Hello, My name is Kaci. Welcome to South African Airways. To man named Aidan Five!
~ Kaci Kullman Five
To make a really effective monster you need to begin with a good man, and tell him lies … Edward
~ Kage Baker
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
~ Kahlil Gibran
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Unable to initiate a relationship, he remained aloof, hoping, as the poem says, that the young woman would make the first move: "You must come and talk to me . . ." He feels "a faint half hope and half regret." Such a mix of powerful emotions is not, of course, unusual for a young man coming of age. But Robert had to be told that he was not alone.
~ Kai Bird
You have to take the whole story." Rabi insisted. "That is what novels are about. There is a dramatic moment and the history of the man; what made him act, what he did and what sort of person he was. That is what you are really doing here- you are writing a man's life.
~ Kai Bird