Quotes About Man

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]

The motivating factor behind God's redemptive plan for every man and woman is His love for us. He not only loves us, He so loves us!

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.