All Quotes

Man is the creature of circumstances.
‐‐ Robert Owen

Man is the inventor of stupidity.
‐‐ Remy de Gourmont

Man is the measure of all things.
‐‐ Protagoras

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
‐‐ Jean Ingelow

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
‐‐ Diogenes

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
‐‐ Aristotle

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
‐‐ Jimmy Durante

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
‐‐ Jean Kerr

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
‐‐ Henry George

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
‐‐ George Orwell

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
‐‐ Marjorie Holmes

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
‐‐ Hal Holbrook

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
‐‐ George Gaylord Simpson

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
‐‐ Edward E. Barnard

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
‐‐ Jacob Bronowski

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
‐‐ Edward T. Hall

Man is what he believes.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

Man is what he reads.
‐‐ Joseph Brodsky

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
‐‐ Hal Borland

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
‐‐ Siegfried Sassoon

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Man keeps inventing things all the time.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov

Man knows much more than he understands.
‐‐ Alfred Adler

Man knows so much and does so little.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
‐‐ Sai Baba

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
‐‐ Albert Claude

Man lives by imagination.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Man lives in a world of meaning.
‐‐ George Herbert Mead

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
‐‐ John Dewey

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
‐‐ Hal Holbrook

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
‐‐ Jose Marti