Quotes About Man

Why is it--that failure to hold the affection f one among millions of women who live, and love, can outweigh every blessing in life, and turn a man's nature into hell, to consume him?

Aristotle says, "Now what is characteristic of any nature is that which is best for it and gives most joy. Such to man is the life according to reason, since it is that which makes him man.

The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

The supreme contribution of the Greeks was to call attention to, employ, and emphasize the power of human reason. This recognition of the power of reasoning is the greatest single discovery made by man.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

A man who does not work should not eat is the most underrated bible verse

Man from his own existence knows the existence of a Creator; from his own attributes, he knows the attributes of his maker; from the control which he has over his own kingdom, he knows the control that God exercises over all the world.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

Curiously he was a modest man. And as his life dream became less and less likely Swingle became, as they say, merely philosophical—that is rueful, not embittered.

The truth is that man has produced imbalances not only in nature but more fundamentally in his relations with his fellow man--in the very structure of his society. To state this thought more precisely: the imbalances man has produced in the natural world are caused by the imbalances he has produced in the social world.

Broadly conceived, however, ecology deals with the balance of nature. Inasmuch as nature includes man, the science basically deals with the harmonization of nature and man. This focus has explosive implications. The explosive implications of an ecological approach arise not only from the fact that ecology is intrinsically a critical science--in fact, critical on a scale that the most radical systems of political economy failed to attain--but it is also an integrative and reconstructive science.

For money as for all other activities of man, "liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

If man acquires rights over things, it is because he is at once active, intelligent and free; by his activity he spreads over external nature; by his intelligence he governs it, and bends it to his use; by his liberty, he establishes between himself and it the relation of cause and effect and makes it his own. ...

Chaos is a great esthetician who accidentally generated the most beautiful landscapes of nature and the unique beauty of man.

In the name of Man, member, and the holy fluid, AMEN

Capitalism place money at the centre of everything. While Socialism make the man at the centre of the universe.

Every prayer is a need or a lack of something. That's why the rich man doesn't ask for food, but for good health throughout the year.

Physically, man and woman cannot be the same. It is only when you elevate your mind to the spiritual level that you will see oneness in all.

The greatest individual will aim to be both the perfectionist, the dreamer, the visionary, and all of the greatest attributes known to man. Neither avoiding nor despising any of them.

The originality of God is unknown, as is trying to find the origin of a man by using our mortal minds to solve our own problems.

We have no idea who put these words into Jesus' mouth, claiming to be the son of man. Because it will awaken many superstitions about his mother.

His Kingdom on this earth was to rule the visible world of man from the invisible realm of the spirit.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership. As head, the man is to provide spiritual leadership and direction to the family. He is supposed to chart the course. His spiritual temperature should set the climate for his entire house.

Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a "working God." Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence. —Sinclair Ferguson