Nature Of Man Quotes - Page 2

• Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Men, Blood, Overcoming

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 65, 1930.

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• Art is the signature of man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Men, Signatures

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

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• The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

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• The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Doe, Causality

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.158, Рипол Классик

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• For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Reality, Men, People

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

  William Godwin

  Men, Atheism, Flow

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.167

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• God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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• The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Passion

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• It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

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• We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Self, Doubt

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• The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

  Joseph Butler

  Happiness, Men, World

  Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215

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• It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

  Epictetus

  Men, Mankind, Attainment

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.117

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• What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.

  Ray Ozzie

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?

  Murray Rothbard

  Unique, Men, Years

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1309, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Faith, Men, Blood

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• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  Samuel Alexander

  Psychology, Details, Different

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• The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such
  a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Exercise, Men, Class

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Long, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.510, Manonmani Publishers

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• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  John Calvin

  Son, Men, Essence

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Law, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Children, Race, Evil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.39, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, History, Peers

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• We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

  Francis Galton

  Views, Parent, Bud

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