Quote by Mary Shelley

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?”

— Mary Shelley

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

“There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is…

— Al-Ghazali

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself.”

— John Paul II

“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only…

— Ayn Rand

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley