Quotes about Man
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
- Tertullian
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
- Mark Twain
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
- Thomas Watson
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
- AW Tozer
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
- Francis Schaeffer
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
- Karl Barth
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
- Francis Schaeffer
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.
- Dorothy Day
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
- Ernest Hemingway