Quotes
Quotes about Man
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
