Quotes About Man

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead, and the universe is not an organism, but a building, with gods at rest in it in luxury: not as personifications of the energies in their manners of operation, but as luxury tenants, requiring service. And Man, accordingly, is not as a child born to flower in the knowledge of his own eternal portion but as a robot fashioned to serve.

The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.

Goethe says that "der Menschheit bestes Tell" ("the best part of man") is this experience, the Schaudern ("shudder")20—it's a kind of noumenal ripple, a realization of how momentary you are in this vast explosion that is the universe, and that's what you get through Dionysus.

The story that we have in the West, so far as it is based on the Bible, is based on a view of the universe that belongs to the first millennium B.C. It does not accord with our concept either of the universe or of the dignity of man. It belongs entirely somewhere else.

fear no man but only God

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

Man is a creature composed of countless millions of cells: a microbe is composed of only one, yet throughout the ages the two have been in ceaseless conflict.

The laws of God, the laws of man,He may keep that will and can;Not I: let God and man decreeLaws for themselves and not for me.

His folly has not fellowBeneath the blue of dayThat gives to man or womanHis heart and soul away.

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Surely the obscure soul of the dog must be far more susceptible to the vibrations of thought than the human. … Do they not bark because they feel the presence of a dead man?

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with misery, all they can Is to hate their fellow man; - from Poem XLI

Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate of man: We want the moon, but we shall get no more. (Last Poems, IX)

If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I'm your man.

El temperamento y las circunstancias de este hombre desgraciado habían estado en guerra con su talento.

Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme.

Metaphysical man is dead; our whole field of enquiry is transformed by physiological man.

Victory comes,' Angron smiled, showing a crescent of bloody teeth, 'to the last man standing.'

Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.