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Quotes About Man

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit.
~ Rio Ferdinand
Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
~ Robert Browning
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
~ Rumi
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
~ Samuel Butler
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
~ Saul Alinsky
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Fear of women love more than hate the man.
~ Socrates
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
~ Sophocles
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
~ Stanley Kubrick
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
~ T. S. Eliot
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
~ Tertullian
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
~ Thiruvalluvar
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
~ Thomas Fuller
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
~ Thomas Mann
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.
~ Thomas Paine
Man is the only animal to borrow tools.
~ Tim Allen
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.
~ Tom Arnold
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
~ Tryon Edwards
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
~ W. D. Hamilton
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
~ William James
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
~ William Law