Top 100 What Is Man Quotes
#1. For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
Blaise Pascal
#2. What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Chief Seattle
#3. What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Andre Malraux
#5. What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
Bias Of Priene
#6. If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
Maimonides
#7. For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
Selma Lagerlof
#8. What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it.
Jean Baudrillard
#9. So my days go on, and grow to weeks and months. So will they grow to years, should life so long remain an unwelcome guest within me: for what is man without hope? and is not hope nigh dead within this weary breast?
Bram Stoker
#10. But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.
Jonathan Swift
#11. I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?
Herman Melville
#12. When I v look at your heavens, the work of your w fingers, the moon and the stars, x which you have set in place, 4 y what is man that you are z mindful of him, and a the son of man that you b care for him?
Anonymous
#13. What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain
#14. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Anonymous
#15. What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty
Shinichi Suzuki
#16. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Psalm 8:3-5
Beth Moore
#17. Lord, what is man, that You care for him, the son of man, that You think of him? 4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Anonymous
#18. Ultimately there are only two important epistemological questions in philosophy: What is reality? What is man? And the answer can be collapsed into one: The reality is that man is terribly lonely.
Ben Mijuskovic
#19. Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds?
Fernando Pessoa
#20. What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
Elie Wiesel
#22. During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live?
Nathan Bellow
#23. Without education ... what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes ...
Chukwudifu Oputa
#24. It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
Charles Hodge
#25. What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
Benjamin Peirce
#26. There is no other experience more empowering and undying than the experience of uniting unconditionally with the Conscience of God. From the forthcoming book: What is Man.
Rohan Perera
#27. Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. What is man?
Hope turned to dust.
No.
What is man?
Dust turned to hope.
Elie Wiesel
#29. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
Chief Seattle
#30. What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#31. Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born.
Anthony Hecht
#32. God, what is man's best gift to mankind? To be beautiful of soul and then let people see into your soul.
Richard J. Foster
#33. The classical anthropological question, What is man? - "how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!" - is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.
Paul Goodman
#34. What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?
Malcolm Lowry
#35. For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Isak Dinesen
#37. The immensity of the universe with the vastness of space and uncountable heavenly bodies is so outside our control and power. What is man compared to such awesome magnificence? It is a humbling experience to note one's insignificance.
Sharon Lathan
#38. I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.
Czeslaw Milosz
#39. After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ...
Walter De La Mare
#40. What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking
Edward O. Wilson
#41. What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
Ayn Rand
#43. Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.
Leonid Andreyev
#44. Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.
Gurcharan Das
#45. Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets?
Fernando Pessoa
#46. Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
Robert Burns
#47. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!
Zhuangzi
#48. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
#49. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
#50. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.
Angie Stone
#51. The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
David Attenborough
#52. Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
Majel Barrett
#53. I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Winston Groom
#54. What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
Jim Brown
#55. The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.
Thor Heyerdahl
#56. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
Frances Perkins
#57. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.
Lao Chang
#58. I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity.
Evo Morales
#59. It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
#60. That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.
Mark Goldblatt
#61. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
Graham Greene
#62. What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
#64. I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
Thomas A. Edison
#65. I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably
Kevin Keegan
#66. The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
Walter Russell
#67. We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.
Pope Benedict XVI
#68. Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
Austin O'Malley
#69. Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...
Paul Bowles
#70. What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.
James Edwin Gunn
#72. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#73. What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.
Howard Thurman
#74. Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#75. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#76. What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man.
Anton Chekhov
#77. My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
Charles Dickens
#78. The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
Earl Warren
#79. A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
David O. McKay
#80. I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.
Mos Def
#81. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Edward R. Murrow
#82. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Robin G. Collingwood
#83. All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
Janis Joplin
#84. He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
Erwin Chargaff
#85. This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
Jack White
#86. You English are like mad bulls ... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult ... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.
Wilhelm II
#87. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#88. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.
Maya Banks
#89. Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry.
Mort Sahl
#90. Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.
Pierce Brown
#92. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
Lynn Coady
#94. What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.
Elizabeth Edwards
#95. The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Henry Charles Carey
#96. Confucius taught this when he said, "The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior man, what is profitable.
Bohdi Sanders
#97. It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.
Juliet Marillier
#98. What is the point of fainting into a man's arms if you are not conscious to enjoy it?
Marie Silk
#99. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf
#100. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
Phineas Quimby
