Belief Quote by Carl L. Becker Download Open image “The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.” — Carl L. Becker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belief Insignificant Ironic Irony Men Significance
No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies,… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God.… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
