Human Glory Quotes

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.