Quotes About Man

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

The reactionary is mistaken if he assumes that the democrat rejects his reasons but shares his repugnance. The modern world is a pigsty in whose morass modern man rolls happily.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Having promulgated the dogma of original innocence, liberalism concludes that the man guilty of the crime is not the envious murderer but the victim who aroused his envy.

Modernism ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

Modern man does not live in space and time, but in geometry and chronometry.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

Let us respect the two poles of man: concrete individual, human spirit. But not the middle zone of an animal with opinions.

Even the enemy of technology denounces its public, but trivial, outrages more than its invisible, but disastrous, destructions. (As if contemporary man's feverish migration, for instance, were disturbing because of traffic accidents.)

Yesterday we believed that it was sufficient to scorn what man achieves; today we know that we must also scorn what he desires.

To excuse his attacks against the world, man determined that matter is inert.

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums.

The historical importance of a man rarely corresponds to his intimate nature. History is full of victorious morons.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

The cause of the modern disease is the conviction that man can cure himself.

Every rebellion against the order of man is noble, so long as it does not disguise rebelliousness against the order of the world.

Let us lament less the obscenity of today's novelist than his misfortune. When man becomes insignificant, copulation and defecation become important actions.

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything. Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

Modernity ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly,Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky,From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,I really think the greatest fool is man.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.

Here, precisely here, man imitates God: God granted Himself the work of creation, as the highest delight, and He demands that man, too, be a creator of prosperity and the harmonious course of things. And this they call dull!

Business was successfully concluded. But—strange is man: he was deeply mortified at being in disfavour with the very people whom he did not respect, and whose vanity and love of dress he derided.