Quotes About Man

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.