Quotes About Man

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.