Quotes About Man

It is perhaps a humiliating sign of spiritual immaturity that [modern] man needs, and wants, a large measure of authority.

As Jung says more clearly of Christ: This Gnostic Christ … symbolizes man's original unity and exalts it as the saving goal of his development. By "composing

It must not be forgotten that it is just in the imagination that a man's highest value may lie.

This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.

As a matter of fact, primitive man is no more logical or illogical than we are. His presuppositions are not the same as ours, that is what distinguishes him from us.

For thousands of years, rites of initiation have been teaching spiritual rebirth; yet, strangely enough, man forgets again and again the meaning of divine procreation.

The direct outcome of this renunciation is individualism,71 that is, the need for a realization of individuality, a realization of man as he is.

But God, who also does not hear our prayers, wants to become man, and for that purpose he has chosen, through the Holy Ghost, the creaturely man filled with darkness—the natural man who is tainted with original sin and who learnt the divine arts and sciences from the fallen angels.

But a man didn't use a word like that except to demean. And he no doubt meant what he said. It hurt.

I've got a question," said Tristan Glode. His voice was stentorian and without humor. "Yes, sir?" Jed said. He knew instantly Glode was the kind of man who would expect and appreciate deference and would reward it with a big tip.

Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man.

The Bible says God made man in his image, but I think we make and remake him in whatever image happens to suit our shifting needs.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

Mujer, que aqueste nombre es el mejor requiebro para el hombre.

La cultura è un sistema di limitazioni imposte al comportamento naturale dell'uomo: i non-acculturati, coloro che non sono in grado o rifiutano di interiorizzare i principi morali limitatori, e dunque di autoregolarsi, vengono governati con lo strumento della coercizione.

intersection of Broadway and Houston Street. Here, it was once sagely remarked, you could fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man;

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; and the more man turns to it, the more the law ought to weed it out.' " Nodding

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

desagrado. Había algo en aquel hombre que le

proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.

Poppies whose roots are in man's veins Drop, and are ever dropping; But mine in my ear is safe — Just a little white with the dust.

Well, I devoutly hope Churchill is safe," Atkins wrote in his dispatch that night, hardly believing that the young man who held so much promise could be so quickly lost. "But I half fear the gods love too much a man, only twenty-four years old, who... is that rare combination, the soldier, the reckless soldier even, and the bookman.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or normal man to whom the scientific statements refer.