Quotes about Man

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The child is the father of the man.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being....

Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

An angry woman cannot respect a weak man.