Quotes About Man

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.