Mankind Quote by Blaise Pascal

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of…

— Blaise Pascal

“What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository…

— Blaise Pascal

“In these aspirations, much more than in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character of a man to be found. Our chimeras are…

— Victor Hugo

“Every one has his peculiarities and cannot get rid of them; and yet many a one is destroyed by his peculiarities, and those too…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble is reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable!…

— William Shakespeare

“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic fits may…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I…

— Jill Conner Browne

“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become…

— Oliver James

“Neither divine nor demonic, this world is the theater of God’s glory. Bound by no inner necessity or thirst for self-completion, the triune God…

— Michael Horton

“You are God's chisel; it is you He uses to create masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that…

— Euripides