Quotes About Man

As Tozer said in The Pursuit of God, "it is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

If they can read in the eyes of a man an energy, a passion, then they find him attractive.

L'amour chez l'homme n'est rien d'autre que la reconnaissance pour le plaisir donné.

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the one from 1793:

Primero, el sufrimiento El universo grita. El hormigón acusa la violencia con la que fue fraguado como muro. El hormigón grita. La hierba gimotea bajo los dientes del animal, ¿Y el hombre? ¿Qué diremos del hombre?

Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire; c'était la télévision.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

She took off her shoes and turned on the television and watched the end of a rerun of The Office. She wondered if there was any other man in the world like John Krasinski, and if a girl would have to be as perfect as Emily Blunt to marry him.

I surmised he would be of the same race as the victims as a man of any other race in the company of a boy would have been immediately noticed by the public, who were very suspicious of such activities.

As I drew up the profile I realised that it had so much in common with the profile of Selepe, the Cleveland killer, that it could have described the same man. But a profile describes a personality and not a person and two people could have similar personalities.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

man would transcend his insignificance only to the extent to which it is possible to make himself symbolic, to incarnate alive a symbol in his own soul, that immanence.

There is an old Italian saying: "Il lavoro nobilita I'uomo, e lo rende simile alle bestie"; or, "Work gives man nobility, and turns him into an animal.

As a man I had to provide my own purpose in life, and probably nothing is more difficult. It is easier to beget children and to thrust the responsibility on them while washing one's own hands.

shacked up with the pilot man, right? And this one: They were all transfigured by higher beings: *STENDEC* Val Garner, presenter of Impossible

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.