Quotes About Man

Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in the moon when time was, --Stephano (Act II, scene 2, lines 136-137)

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.

My Lord, I will use them according to their desert. HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.

The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.

The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man?

Aushwitze itself remains explicable. The most profound statement yet made upon Aushwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query, 'At Aushwitze, tell me, where was God?' And the answer: 'Where was man?

The grief is coming now, she said to herself: He's beginning to know what suffering is. Perhaps that's good in a way. Even he. Perhaps that's good for a man—finally to know what suffering is, to know what a woman somehow knows almost from the day she's born.

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man.

The man assured me that it's the best place in town, and it's very near the French Quarter.

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books.

On an opponent:He loves the working man. He loves to see him work.

Either you trust a man and give him authority to carry out his treatment or you do not. When it goes well you are happy that you did so. When it goes ill you think, if only . . .

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice

The only guide to a man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

the one most awful thing in war is 'the careful man'!

The fighting man has a grim sense of justice, which it is dangerous to affront.

My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once. My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man. I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.

Man might carve his identification mark on the earth but, once he ceases to be vigilant, Nature will take back what man had once achieved to please his vanity. »

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Desde el punto de vista epistemológico, hacer dieta es discutible. Si todo lo que existe está sólo en mi cabeza, no sólo puedo pedir cualquier cosa en un restaurante, sino que también puedo exigir que el servicio sea impecable. El hombre es el único ser capaz de no dejar propina al camarero.

El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello

I'll get back to the main theme of the book: man's search for god in a pointless, violent universe.