Upon Man Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
— Martin Buber
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Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
— Francis Spellman
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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great…
— Winston Churchill
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a…
— Willa Cather
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
— Mark Twain
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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
— H.G. Wells
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The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no…
— Kirtley F. Mather
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You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.
— Xavier de Maistre
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the…
— Muhammad Asad
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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need…
— Martin Heidegger
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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
— Bertrand Russell
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He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
— Simone Weil
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Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
— Jules Verne
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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man
— Francis Cardinal Spellman
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful!hath there come upon man (ever) any period of time in which he was a thing unremembered?(1)lo!…
— Holy Quran
Who Wrote These Upon Man Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Upon Man Quotes as follows: