Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but h...
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and to beget.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
We are members one of another.
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Man will ever stand in need of man.
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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