Quotes about Man
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- Publilius Syrus
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
- Robert Frost
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
- St. John Chrysostom
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
- Alice Walker
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
- St. Augustine
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
- John Adams
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
- William Wordsworth
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
- Malcolm X