Quotes about Man
Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.
— Karl Barth
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
— James Allen
Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
— John Bunyan
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
— John Donne
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
— John Donne
Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.
— John Milton
Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
— John Milton
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
— Karl Barth
Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
— Leo Buscaglia
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
— Mahatma Gandhi