Quotes About Man

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

A child is an angel dependent on man

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.