Quotes About Man

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Patroclus. A voice like music, above me. I look up to see a man leaning on the walls as if sunning, dark hair to his shoulders, a quiver and bow slung casually around his torso. Startled, I slip a little, my knees scraping the rock. He is piercingly beautiful, smooth skin and a finely cut face that glows with something more than human. Black eyes. Apollo.

I had never seen the age between them so clearly before. My keen son, and this man who chose to be no one.

Phoenix sends a man out, a diver, to look for her body, but he does not find it. Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest. I would give my life again to make it so.

He made it look beautiful, this sweating, hacking art of ours. I understood why his father did not let him fight in front of the others. How could any ordinary man take pride in his own skill when there was this in the world?

He was large, but I was a goddess, and we were of a height. "I need your cloak," I said to him, "and your tunic, at once." His eyes narrowed, and I could see the reflexive no in them. I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

She had the strange and unaccustomed sensation of having been observed and, perhaps, understood. How odd it was that the person who seemed to comprehend her, to see into her very soul, should be a man who had glimpsed her only once.

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

Lass, the man is already dead," said one of the twins. "You do nae have to pull his head off. 'Tis already twisted around enough on its own.

The Patristic school is notable for its emphasis upon the supremacy of man throughout the universe.

Herodotus relates that when Cambyses entered the temple of the Cabiri he was unable to restrain his mirth at seeing before him the figure of a man standing upright and, facing the man, the figure of a woman standing on her head. Had Cambyses been acquainted with the principles of divine astronomy, he would have realized that he was then in the presence of the key to universal equilibrium.

In the world today ideals live but a moment in their purity, before the gathering hosts of darkness snuff out the gleaming spark. The Mystery School, however, remains unmoved. It does not bring light to man, man must bring his light to it.

Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it, for in Nature every creature is accorded the privilege of unfolding its own destiny

little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

The unfolding of man's spiritual nature is as much an exact science as astronomy, medicine or jurisprudence.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.

Era preciso morir para saber ciertas cosas? Ahora comprende también que en el corazón y en los sentidos de aquel hombre ella había hincado sus raíces; que jamás, aunque a menudo lo creyera, estuvo enteramente sola; que jamás, aunque a menudo lo pensara, fue realmente olvidada.