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Quotes About Man

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
~ Edward Abbey
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
one spoonful hopeone handful wooden fireone feet soilone glass of waterone man high sky one last breath in smile
~ litymunshi
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.
~ Thiruman Archunan
Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
~ Charles Yost
The history of man is a must read poetry.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The deeds and motive of man define his personality.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.
~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
where is the source of power of man's restore? in physical strength ?or money? i felt -it is heart . men who has something might be stopped if no is peace in his heart
~ litymunshi
The ugly man, is the harsh man.
~ K.A. Hosein
God would never make man in his image, because that would then make him as vain as what man is.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Curiosity is god's greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified.
~ Onaiza Khan, Caged
Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.
~ Eraldo Banovac
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever
~ Westminster Shorter Catechism
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
~ James Branch Cabell
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
~ John Drinkwater
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
~ Charles Dickens
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
~ William Wordsworth
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.
~ John Terry
Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
~ Enid Lyons
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
~ Ronald Reagan