Quotes About Man

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.