Quotes about Man

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being....

Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

An angry woman cannot respect a weak man.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.