Quotes About Man

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.