Quotes About Man

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.