Quotes About Man

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

The sky is an enormous man.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

Everything in nature has found a niche, a perfect harmony of balance. Man need to find his niche, his perfect balance, where he fits in the natural cycle

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.