Quotes
Quotes about Man
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ... as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw doubt, but, when once decided, going through his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known.... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect ... it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great....
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
