Quotes About Man

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Now I understand," said the last man.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.