Quotes About Man

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

even God cannot match the cruelty of his creation. For every Santorini, there are a hundred massacres of innocents. And that is the work of man--more particularly, the work of politics, of groups of men organized to gain and exercise power.

One modern conceit is that the inner man is more important than the outer man. The second conceit is that somehow, thanks to Freud and modern psychobabble, we have real access to the inner man.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Cleanliness, said some sage man, is next to godliness. It may be, but how it came to sit so near is the marvel.

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,

Talent is God given-be thankful. Praise is man given-be humble. Conceit is self given-be careful.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

father said to that man?" I shook my head. "He said, 'With the one that you have.

Lewis Alison, a dark, craggy man of more than common height, gave no sign of sharing in the general curiosity. He stayed in his place, seeming to have wrapped himself in a composure not easily disturbed.

I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America, from Folsom cave to now. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large, and without mercy.

The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.

As we rode along LaBoeuf commenced whistling tunes, perhaps to take his mind off his sore arm. Rooster said, "God damn a man that whistles!" It was the wrong thing to say if he wished it to stop.

That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.

Christ did not, like a moralist, love a theory of good, but he loved the real man.

When a man encounters Christ, everything that Christ is and has is made the property of this man." —ETHICS

Use this to your advantage. Never get desperate. Maintain the attitude that they need you more than you need them. No man is worth getting desperate over. If

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

That which man builds man destroys, but the city of God is built by God and cannot be destroyed by man. AUGUSTINE

There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you sure that man can conquer until he has been wholly defeated? Are you sure that he can find plenitude till he has known utter despair? You will not let him despair of himself, but it may be that only in such a complete despair he finds that which cannot despair and is something other than man.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.