Top 100 For Man Quotes
#1. For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle
#2. The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis De Sade
#3. Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Miguel De Cervantes
#4. A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations of problematism and of the ambiguity of contemporary thought (for Man does seem, to the contemporary mind, to be ambiguous).
Jean-Paul Sartre
#5. In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to
theological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of Godand the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories ...
Christos Yannaras
#6. To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.
Bernard Iddings Bell
#7. There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
W. H. Auden
#8. On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself
on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Simone De Beauvoir
#9. There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God
a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#10. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.
Virchand Gandhi
#11. If there be a single law governing the actions of men, freewill cannot exist, for man's will would be subject to that law.
Leo Tolstoy
#12. Whether success will crown the effort, or whether God wills it otherwise, it is not for man to discuss; it is enough that the work is there, and it is our duty to do it.
G.A. Henty
#13. There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man's creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God.
Robert M. Edsel
#15. True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
Baruch Spinoza
#16. The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.
Nick Cohen
#17. The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?
Daniel Quinn
#19. I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
#22. Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man.
Dewi Morgan
#23. For Man was a culture-bearer as well as a soul-bearer, but his cultures were not immortal and they could die with a race or an age ...
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#24. Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
Lauren Oliver
#25. Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#27. I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
Alan Furst
#28. But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#30. There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
Nikolai Gogol
#31. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.
Robert Jastrow
#32. Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.
Horatius Bonar
#33. This in no life for man or woman, insults and hatred and history.
James Joyce
#34. Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
J.G. Holland
#35. So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.
Thomas Hardy
#36. To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges
#37. Think of it ... that in your heart there is an answer to all the things and sights of the world, that everything concerns you, that you ought to know as much about everything as it is possible for man to know.
Hermann Hesse
#38. Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory ... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#39. Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.
Lauren Oliver
#40. The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#41. You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.
Marilyn Manson
#42. Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
Margaret Fuller
#43. When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
Frantz Fanon
#45. relegated to a tireless search to find a church that preaches the Bible at all, as today's pulpits more commonly stream self-help infomercials which refuse to mention, let alone offer remedy for man's greatest issue: sin and man's need for redemption.
Jeff Kluttz
#46. Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.
Jack Kerouac
#47. Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#48. Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man". And lately did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
Henry Ward Beecher
#50. There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to as soon as possible.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#51. Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
#52. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
Homer
#53. As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
Anonymous
#54. Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.
Blaise Pascal
#55. I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
Ziad Doueiri
#56. Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I.
Howard Pyle
#57. I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.
Brent Spiner
#58. But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.
Edward Bernds
#59. The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#60. For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#61. There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
Rigoberta Menchu
#62. The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.
Erich Fromm
#63. Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
#64. In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.
Fernando Perez
#65. Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
Democritus
#66. Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#67. Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.
Thomas Lovejoy
#68. In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. Only man can be an enemy for man; only he can rob him of the meaning of his acts and his life because it also belongs only to him alone to confirm it in its existence, to recognize it in actual fact as a freedom
Simone De Beauvoir
#70. Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.
Mark Van Doren
#71. Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
Peter Kreeft
#72. Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#73. I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
Criss Jami
#74. ...it is natural for man to try to attain power without recovering grace...(3)
Norman Maclean
#75. In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport ... I would say most hunters are Christian men.
Luke Scott
#76. Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
Mary Baker Eddy
#78. The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
Albert Einstein
#81. As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.
Andrew R. George
#82. It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
Henry Ward Beecher
#83. God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn't the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he?
Stefan Emunds
#84. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
#85. How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#86. I'd leave London only for Man
United, the club of my dreams. For
Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on
the bench.
Adel Taarabt
#87. A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#88. It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis
#89. [N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.
Daniel Quinn
#90. May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
Facundo Cabral
#91. French pedicures make your toes look like fingers. You look grabby. French pedicures are for man thieves.
Helen Ellis
#92. God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.
Joseph Fort Newton
#93. I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.
Erich Fromm
#94. It will be! the mass is working clearer!
Conviction gathers, truer, nearer!
The mystery which for Man in Nature lies
We dare to test, by knowledge led;
And that which she was wont to organize
We crystallize, instead.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.
Owen Feltham
#96. Time having transformed his own body into a storehouse for man-made contraptions designed to fend off collapse ... there was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that had lived and died before us.
Philip Roth
#97. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal.
Thomas Jefferson
#98. A penny for the moat, where all the ashen song be wrote - a tune for man, so long eloped in hours of decision and derisive hope. Flutter, flutter heart, beyond your base and noble part. All eyes behold the passing.
Chris Galford
#99. It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
Simone De Beauvoir
