Quotes About Man

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.