Quotes
Quotes about Man
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.
'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Every madman thinks all other men mad.
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus Desunt multa. Bene est, cui Deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est manu.]
Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]
He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
