All Quotes

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
‐‐ Daniel Webster

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Man is a substance clad in shadows.
‐‐ John Sterling

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Man is a universe within himself.
‐‐ Bob Marley

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
‐‐ Plato

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
‐‐ Loren Eiseley

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
‐‐ Adam Smith

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
‐‐ T. E. Hulme

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Man is an imagining being.
‐‐ Gaston Bachelard

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them. All this must be done by his reason.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
‐‐ Eugene O'Neill

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
‐‐ Gilbert Parker

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Man is born to eat.
‐‐ Craig Claiborne

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
‐‐ Boris Pasternak

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Man is by nature a political animal.
‐‐ Aristotle

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Man is everywhere still in chains.
‐‐ Herbert Read

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
‐‐ Gustave Meyrink

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
‐‐ James Thurber

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
‐‐ Voltaire

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
‐‐ Paramahansa Yogananda