TAKING ABOUT MAN

 

          TAKING ABOUT MAN

            There are innumerable thoughts and quotes about man. In fact, he is a mysterious creation of God. What he is supposed to do in this equally incomprehensible world is a riddle. Why is he mortal? Was he in heaven and was thrown out due to some disobedience? Is he a sinner in the eyes of God? Will he be punished or rewarded according to his good or bad deeds? All these facts and questions will remain a mystery. Leave aside religions, even sciences will not be able to know the whole truth.

            Here are some interesting thoughts about man.

·        Indisputably a great, good, handsome man is the first of created things.—English novelist Charlotte Bronte (1816-55).

·        Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar.---English poet Lord Byron (188-1824).

·        Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires.—French poet Alphonse de Lamartine   (1790-1869).

·        A reasoning rather than a reasonable man. --– American Statesman  Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804).

·        There are but three classes of man, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive,----Swiss theologian John Caspar Lavater (1741-1801).

·        There are four types of good men who worship me. The sorrowing, the truth-seeker, the seeker of bliss, and the wise man. The wise man, being steadfast, is the best among these. His mind is balanced. ----Lord Krishna, a major Hindu deity (Born 228 BCE). Source: The Bhagavad Gita.

·        Finally, The British poet-playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in his play Hamlet, Act 4, Sc.4:  

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god!  the beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!

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G.R.Kanwal

10 October 2025