Quotes about Man
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
— Pierre Corneille
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
— Pope John Paul II
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
— Publilius Syrus
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
— Publilius Syrus
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson