Quotes about Man
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
— Soren Kierkegaard
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
— Theodore Roosevelt
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
— William Hazlitt
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
— William Osler
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
— William Wilberforce
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth
Salvation is not a plan; it's a Man.
— Adrian Rogers
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
— Aristotle
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.
— Beth Moore