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Quotes About Man

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
~ Friedrich Schiller
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
~ Friedrich Schiller
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.
~ Gaston Leroux
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.
~ Geoffrey Barraclough
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
~ George Canning
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
~ George MacDonald
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
~ George Meredith
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.
~ George R. R. Martin
Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man
~ Gerhard Berger
I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.
~ Gherman Titov
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
~ Glenn Beck
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
~ Glenn Close
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
~ Graydon Carter
[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.
~ Gretl Braun
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
~ H. G. Wells
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
~ H. L. Mencken