All Quotes

Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
‐‐ Joseph de Maistre

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
‐‐ G. Stanley Hall

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
‐‐ Sai Baba

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
‐‐ James Allen

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
‐‐ Andre Gide

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.
‐‐ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
‐‐ John Webster

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
‐‐ Heraclitus

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
‐‐ Frederic Chopin

Man is never perfect nor contented.
‐‐ Jules Verne

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
‐‐ Thornton Wilder

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
‐‐ Sophocles

Man is not free unless government is limited.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
‐‐ John Dewey

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

Man is not made for defeat.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
‐‐ Plautus

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
‐‐ Betty Friedan

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.
‐‐ Tom Udall

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
‐‐ Jacopo Sannazaro

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
‐‐ Ernst Mach

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
‐‐ Alfred A. Montapert

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
‐‐ Paul Eldridge

Man is remembered by his deeds.
‐‐ Knute Nelson

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
‐‐ Joseph de Maistre

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
‐‐ David Sarnoff

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
‐‐ Bill Vaughan