Quotes about Man
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
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
— William Wordsworth
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Ronald Reagan
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen