Quotes about Man
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
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