Quotes about Man

Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.

He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.

Character, not circumstance, make a man.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.