Quotes About Man

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

I love not man the less but nature more.

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man's finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it.

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

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