2,613 Quotes About Man

If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise

Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.

People of the world, today always say, "Look up to the sky, look up to the sky", but while they do that, they trample on butterflies with broken wings and they step on ladybugs with broken legs. "Look up to the sky and be like God", they say; but nay, it is the nature of the mortal to cast his gaze upward, while it is the nature of the gods in the sky to cast their gaze downwards. When you are below, the way to look is up. When you are up, the way to look is down.

There is a god in man, and in nature. He, who sits in the dark, is the bringer of light. This beauty, the sign of an open eye.

A ‘biomass’ man repeats what he sees

For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.