Angel Quote by Norman Mailer

“Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.”

— Blaise Pascal

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

— Robert Browning

“The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.”

— W.A. Clouston

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Do you know what that means? 'Man of God.' An odd name, isn't it? It teaches us that what we call angels are only…

— Elie Wiesel

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

— John Milton

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the…

— William James

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good…

— Swami Vivekananda

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

— Khalil Gibran