Quotes About Man

The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?