Quotes About Man

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

Never trust a man who can dance.