Ancestry Quote by Seneca the Younger

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible…

— Charles Darwin

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

— Isaac Barrow

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

— Anonymous

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

— Voltaire

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing…

— Thomas Huxley

“Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and praise of…

— N.T. Wright

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the…

— John Bunyan

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human…

— Ashley Montagu

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Every history of the creation, and every traditionary account, whether from the lettered or unlettered world, however they may vary in their opinion or…

— Thomas Paine