Quotes about Man
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
— John Adams
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
— John Adams
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
— John Donne
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
— John Donne
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
— John Donne
It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
— John Lennon
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
— John Milton
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
— Mary Baker Eddy
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
— George Eliot
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
— Philip James Bailey
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
— James Allen