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Quotes About Man

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
~ Saint Augustine
Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.
~ William Lyon Phelps
A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.
~ Zedd
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
~ Johann Most
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
~ George Mason
Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.
~ Demetri Martin
You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?
~ John Lennon
The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
~ George Carlin
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
~ Agatha Christie
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
~ B. F. Skinner
Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.
~ Rich Wilkerson Jr.
The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
~ T. H. White
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
~ Edward Young
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
~ John Steinbeck
God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.
~ Gregory Bateson
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
~ Jack Butler Yeats
I may not be a human, but I am a man.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
~ Will Durant
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
~ Daniel Webster